[Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

[Mattis Lind]

Here is a scan of another EDU marketing document:

1,000,000 Students

http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/EDU/DEC-1.000.000-STUDENTS.pdf

Lyle Bickley helped me with OCR and de-skew. Thanks!

/Mattis

Den ons 23 jan. 2019 kl 20:16 skrev Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com>:

> Here is the scan of EDU #7
>
>
> http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/EDU/Digital-EDU-7-newsletter.pdf
>
> It is scanned in 600dpi color so it is big. Please anyone that has good
> tools might squeeze it a bit without loosing resolution and color.
>
> Reading it quickly it is an issue that edited by David Ahl and Sally Bower
> (who appear on page 5). On the centrefold there are some typical (I think)
> David Ahl pictures that I recognize from 101 Computer Games. (I had a bad
> copy which my father brought home from work when I was a kid. Remember
> typing in Game of life on the home built terminal connected to a 6800
> system running some BASIC)
>
> I notice on the last page there som small text in very fine print "Printed
> in U.S.A. 0103 00173 2669/F 14 25" comparing this with the other EDU
> material which seems to be printed by the same company I deduce that 00173
> most likely indicate the year 1973.
>
> It make sense since all these EDU brochures was sent with a cover letter
> dated 1973-11-27 to a school, in Stockholm, Sweden, Åvaskolan in Täby.
>
> Hope you enjoy it!
>
> It will take some time to get the rest scanned. I need to scan them in the
> flatbed scanner since I don't want to destroy them in the process.
>
> /Mattis
>
> Den ons 23 jan. 2019 kl 15:08 skrev Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Jan 23, 2019, at 1:54 AM, Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > onsdag 23 januari 2019 skrev Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org>:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Paul Koning wrote:
>> >
>> > On Jan 22, 2019, at 6:00 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > In article <
>> CABr82SJodd8HHSGZjY8O_L5Uqc3j1ORJb7hT90VizYkjdQ0aiA at mail.gmail.com>,
>> >    Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > I have some DEC EDU material which I can scan if there are interest
>> (and if
>> > it isn't scanned already by someone else):
>> >
>> > https://i.imgur.com/tqmcieK.jpg
>> >
>> > I'd like to see this one about MINI-RSTS!
>> >
>> > I remember seeing that before, quite possibly the same data sheet.  I
>> never heard of it while at DEC (in RSTS development).  Perhaps it was a
>> short lived early (V4 vintage) RSTS marketing exercise.
>> >
>> >
>> >         paul
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes. I forgot that I already scanned that one. Here is the mini RSTS
>> flyer in full pdf.
>> >
>> > http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/mini-rsts.pdf
>> >
>> > Since the other documents are printed around 1972/1973 I guess that
>> this one is the same vintage.
>> >
>> > /Mattis
>> >
>> >
>> > Paul and I had this discussion before about 12 years ago on Wikipedia:
>> >
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RSTS-11&action=history
>> >
>> > I believe RSTS-11 V4A-12 was probably given the name Mini-Rsts-11
>> > by the marketing department (somewhat the same as MicroRSTS later).
>> > MicroRSTS was a pregenned distribution with exactly the same code
>> > that came on the distribution tapes, starting with RSTS/E V8.0-06.
>> > There are many references to MicroRSTS, but I have only seen 2 for
>> > Mini-Rsts (below is a link for our colleges RSTS-11 receipt).
>> >
>> > http://www.rsts.org/images/minirsts.jpg
>> >
>> > I know that this original distribution was V4A-12 so the name was
>> > probably dropped by the time RSTS/E V5A-21 was released eight (8)
>> > months later.
>> >
>> > Brett
>>
>> Interesting that there is no date on that document.  The term "RSTS-11"
>> makes it clear we're talking about RSTS V4 or earlier.  For that matter, so
>> does the hardware configuration: a boatload of DL11s for the user terminals
>> rather than a DH11 or DZ11 mux, because V4 only supported single line
>> interfaces.
>>
>> It's not clear if this is V4 or an older version. 24kW memory is a
>> minimal V4 configuration, pretty marginal actually but possibly ok for 8
>> users max.  (In college I used V4A on a 28kW machine, 16 terminal lines, 16
>> users max though it tended to crash at around 12.)  The feature list
>> doesn't mention some V4 (optional) features like "record I/O" so it's
>> possible this was actually V3.
>>
>> I also found the term "PDP-11/21" interesting.  Has that been used
>> anywhere else?  It's pretty clearly an 11/20 configuration.
>>
>>         paul
>>
>>
>>
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