On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 12:17:10PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > > On Mar 1, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk > > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 03/01/2017 05:27 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote: > >> I have heard that story to. _IF_ you have WCS for the 11/60 ... not very > >> common. > >> But even with WCS installed, there is a “small” problem: the PDP-8 > >> microcode > >> for the 11/60 is lost ☹ > > But it could be rewritten! > > Presumably. But it's not easy to replicate the work of a wizard like Richie > Lary. > > The microcode assembler is probably less of a problem. Another issue would > be to reconstruct the RSTS support code for loading the microcode and running > PDP8 jobs, which doesn't seem to be around anymore either. > > paul >
Many pieces to the pussle. But I read on alt.sys.pdp10 that there was a presentation at DECUS Europ "probably the one at Heathrow in 1978". So maybe there are some meeting notes out there with more info. /P
