On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Rick Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Agreed... here are the handle numbers to help clarify what we are all >> talking about... >> >> M8319 KL8A PDP-8/A 4 channel serial I/O >> >> M8650 KL8E Asynchronous Data Control (current loop or RS232) >> M8655 KL8JA Terminal Control (UART based substitute for M8650) >> >> ... the only time I've ever used my KL8A was with RTS-8... > > I can confirm this - I wrote the TSS/8 support for the KL8A to deal with a > customer who wanted 24 serial lines on their 8/E based system...
Woof! > The primary KL8A user was WPS-8. Ah, right. I never had a personal need to run multiple WPS-8 stations, but, yeah. I remember that. That's probably where my KL8A came from - a WPS-8 system in a 42" cabinet with two sets of floppies and an -8/a in the bottom. That would be amusing to set up, but I don't know that I'd want to _use_ it for any length of time. -ethan _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
