[Simh] Pdp8 terminals

[Ethan Dicks]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Rick Murphy <rick at rickmurphy.net> 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