<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Pidp-10 at Google groups is the PiDP-10 'watering hole':<div><br></div><div> <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10">https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10</a></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 26, 2025, at 14:06, Dan Moisa via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div dir="auto">Thanks, will do. If you know of a specific list, please let me know.<div dir="auto">I'm on <a href="mailto:its-hackers@its.victor.se">its-hackers@its.victor.se</a> but with limited success.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dan.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 12:02 John Francini <<a href="mailto:francini@mac.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">francini@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Hello Dan,<div><br></div><div>Probably best to ask on the PiDP-10 list as there's a number of ITS people there. Now if this was a file from TOPS-10/TOPS-20, I could probably help you.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and regards,</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 26, 2025, at 14:50, Dan Moisa <<a href="mailto:dmoisa@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">dmoisa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto">Curious if folks here have actually worked with pdp-10 and its. I have a few questions around decoding a specific file type - and I'm tripping at literally every step because of the weird syntax, arcane escape characters and execution model.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Really puts unix in a perspective I didn't appreciate before.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dan.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 11:46 John Francini via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">I bought a copy. I have a PiDP-10 kit and a PiDP-11 kit still waiting to be assembled. I did indeed build a PiDP-8 kit already.<div><br></div><div>I wish the -8 kit was of the PDP-8/e rather than the -8/i, but I can't be choosy.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and regards,</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 25, 2025, at 12:27, Lionel Peterson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto">I've corresponded with the author, he confirmed this wasn't written as a 'money maker', but I think it will sell well (the vendor has sold 1,000 of the PiDP-10 kits) given the market size.<div><br></div><div>I would think offering the pdf version would be an easy thing to do, esp since it is being sold as a "print on demand" item thru Amazon (once ordered, Amazon prints and ships the book), but I don't know about that process to know for sure.</div><div><br></div><div>No word on PDF yet, maybe?</div><div><br id="m_-3852500156100030709m_7825267951933629395m_6467615267701784989lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 25, 2025, at 11:17, Alexander Jacocks via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div dir="ltr"><div>Looks very interesting. I wonder if the author is going to sell PDF versions, as well.</div><div><br></div><div>- Alex</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 9:37\u202fAM Lars Brinkhoff via geeks <<a href="mailto:geeks@sunhelp.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">geeks@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Lionel Peterson wrote:<br>
> I've not seen the book, my copy arrives Wednesday, but I wanted to<br>
> spread the word. The Author has a solid track record writing many<br>
> radio-specific books for various gam radios, so I'm confident he's<br>
> done a good job with this book<br>
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I checked the excerpt that is available on Amazon. There are some<br>
nitpicks I could make, but overall it looks fine.<br>
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