DEC VT05 with OS/8 -- basic system rebuild?

[Philipp Hachtmann]

>   I'd say this was a pretty esoteric issue. ;)  I've done tons of stuff 
> with OS/8, going back to when I was about 16 (24 years ago, ugh!) but 
> have never run across this.
Perhaps you never wanted to connect a VT05 needing fill characters to your system? *g*


>   Now, I finally got an ASR-33 a few weeks ago, and I want to connect it 
> to a PDP-8, so I might have to think about this some more! :)
You won't need to think too much: ASR33 simply works out of the box. Insert a KL8-E board, hook up 
the ASR33, run OS/8. Perhaps you have to adjust things like the rubout behaviour...

Philipp

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