Subject: Some purposes of this newsgroup

From: [email-masked] (Charles Lasner)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1992 22:02:43 GMT

As we get started, this list will be expanded:

Open for discussion are any topics to do with the hardware of the DEC PDP-8
series, which includes:

PDP-5
PDP-8
LINC-8
PDP-8/s
PDP-8/i
PDP-8/l
PDP-12
PDP-8/e
PDP-8/f
PDP-8/m
PDP-8/a
VT-78
VT-278 [DECmate I]
PC-278 [DECmate II]
PC-238 [DECmate III]
PC-248 [DECmate III+]

Also various non-DEC PDP-8-like products such as:

Fabritek MP-12
Intersil Intercept series and micro-PDP-8 chips
Pacific CyberMetrix PCM-12 series
Various products from CESI inc.
Harris Semiconductor micro-PDP-8 chips
Digital Computer Controls DCC-112 series
homebrew projects, etc.

Additional hardware topics covered include other "old iron" machines such
as PDP-10, -11, -6, -20, -7, -9, -15, and any relevant memory, terminal, or
other peripheral equipment such as RK/RX disks, etc.  Items relevant to the
Rainbow, Pro, or Micro-11 are welcome if of a "generic" nature, such as the
commonality of Rainbow and DECmate MS-DOS or CP/M.  IBM-PC topics will be
allowed on such issues as formatting RX50 disks or PDP-8 simulators, etc.  In
fact all architectures supporting PDP-8 simulators are welcome here on such
topics, etc.

All aspects of PDP-8 software and documentation are welcome here, including
paper-tape software, and the various operating systems for the machines:

PS/8-PS/12, OS/8-OS/12, OS/78, OS/278, and especially the proposed replacement
system OS/8 Version 5.

P?S/8, a proprietary alternate operating system for PDP-8 and DECmates.

RTS-8.

WPS-8.

COS-300-COS-310 aka DIBOL-8.

"Traditional" systems such as the Disk Monitor and the PDP-5/PDP-8/LINC-8
Library System.

Additional relevant topics are welcome of course.

cjl