On 03/03/2012 05:14 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message<CAAzRQfAhDyMexYqYPQXVbvuFwZ_tow2HCp9WYeS=dksrenw...@mail.gmail.com>
, Andy Lokken writes:
Recently, a member of this list gave me an Austron 5000 Loran C receiver.
With the recent news about Loran C, I am interested to try to use this
device. But I have some questions:
Is it possible to use this receiver without the PDP-8 computer that it was
generally paired with? If so, how is it done?
Only by substituting a different computer, running a program which
controls the receiver like the PDP-8 would have done.
This may be easier than it sounds, provided you know what the heck
the PDP/8 did.
Otherwise: forget all about it.
SIMH among several other simulators could be used, provided you have the
program.
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdp8.html
http://www.pdp-11.nl/homebrew/pdp8/pdp8startpage.html
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp8emu.html
Other links of interest:
http://dustyoldcomputers.com/pdp8/pdp8e/loranc.html
http://www.loran.org/Meetings/Meeting2000/pdffiles/papers/15.pdf
It's resonable that the PDP-8/E did the hyperbolic stuff for navigation.
Cheers,
Magnus
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