PDP-12 and DECmate II handbooks from the Kermit library.
| PDP-12 and DECmate II handbooks from the Kermit library. | (Need photos of PDP-8 and WT-78 Handbook Covers) |
Digital Equipment Corporation's 12-bit microcomputers and word processors include the PDP-8 (the first minicomputer, introduced in 1965), the PDP-12 laboratory computer, and the DECmate I, II, and III, WT-78, VT-78, and VT-278 word processors.
A Kermit program, Kermit-12, was written for these machines in PAL-8 assembly language in 1984-1992 by Jerry Sands, Randy Hippe, Martyn Hemmings, Sepp Stadelmann, Richard Schlerf, and Charles Lasner. It runs under OS/8, OS/78, OS/278, and OS/12. You can find the source code and documentation files at the Kermit FTP site in the following directory:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/d/
The files are the ones whose names start with "k12"; download them in text ("ascii") mode.
You can also get the Kermit-12 files as Tar or Zip archives (download them in binary mode):
Format Size Link Unix Tar 706560 ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/k12.tar Compressed Tar 327199 ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/k12.tar.Z Gzipped Tar 236999 ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/k12.tar.gz Zip (unzip -a) 242047 ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/k12.zip
The filetypes are as follows:
File Type Description .ann Announcements (plain ASCII text). .boo ASCII-encoded binary encoding to be decoded by k12deb.sv .bwr "Beware" file (hints and tips). .doc Plain-text ASCII documentation. .dsk Description of files (plain text). .enc ASCII-encoded 12-bit binary encoding to be decoded by k12dec.sv .ipl Initial program ("bootstrap") loader. .lst Load map. .not Notes. .odt Octal Debugging Technique (bootstrapping). .pal PAL-8 assembly language source code. .upd Update notes.
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