I’m a little stunned that there is this much, or really any, interest in code that ran for a few years on a single oddly-modified PDP-8 at a lab that hasn’t existed for thirty years. It’s not like this is a historically significant system like ITS.
I’ve been doing a series of technical projects in my retirement, to keep busy and exercise my aging brain, and this little history is just the latest (here’s one of my favorite projects). I have very little experience posting to forums and don’t really know what people might like to read. My posts here have been all over the place—stormy days, ribbon cables, Rayleigh scattering, open-collector bus drivers, the Beach Boys, process scheduling. I can see that I have over 500 views, but I don’t know how many people that is or how much of what I’ve written is interesting for a retro computing audience.
There’s no need to bundle the messages—I write everything in a single Word document and then copy/paste to the forum.
As for an updated emulator: I’ve used SIMH on my PiDP-8 and PiDP-10 replicas, but I have no interest in updating its PDP-8 emulation. I do have a great PDP-8/I emulator that I wrote many years ago and that I might be interested in updating. It emulates a completely functional front console (lights and switches), a teletype or VT100, and RK05 disc drives, and has a built-in PAL8 assembler. It also runs the OS/8 package from the PiDP-8 group. It’s a desktop application, however, and only runs under Windows. It’s written in Visual Basic 6.0, and is about as non-portable as it gets.