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

[Mattis Lind]

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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