SIMH+PDP8: Creating and Running BASIC Programs!

In this video, we show you how to mount an RK05 disk image containing Business BASIC for the PDP-8. We have been hoping to get students' hands on our PDP-12 at UMD (see our other videos), but since there's only one PDP-12, we thought that one way we could do that would be to give people instructions for writing and saving BASIC programs on RK05 disk images that we could load and run on our PDP-12. This way, people can play with their BASIC programs at home, and then bring them to UMD to test them on our actual PDP-12. This video shows you just the basics for running SIMH's pdp8, attaching the disk image, booting, creating, running, saving, and deleting BASIC programs. We provide disk images for you to make things super easy.

We will use this pre-made RK05 disk with OS8 and BASIC:

You might find this reference manual useful:

Acknowledgments:
Taken from the series of blog posts by Big Dan the Blogging Man:

Specifically:

Special thanks to Dan, and to Julian Nowaczek for helping.

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To follow along with our behind the scenes work, see:

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Has anyone come up with neat programs yet ? I think Big Dan has details on the WPS-8 word processor if you care to take that for a spin.