Andreas Krennmair wrote:
  Hello,
 I'm a student interested in retrocomputing. That's why I started
 programming PDP-8 assembly a few days ago (Debian basically delivers all
 you need to do that, i.e. simh and palbart). One problem I have is the
 documentation. All that I found is either only a reference for the
 PDP-8 instructions or the documentation of PAL III assembler. The third
 thing I had as reference was the source code of OS/278. All in all, very
 incomplete. Now I learned about the "Introduction to Programming" by
 DEC, written for and about the PDP-8. Unfortunately I was unable to find
 a copy of it on the internet. Now I ask whether anybody of you has a
 copy of it (machine-readable preferred). In Austria, DEC hardware
 doesn't seem to have been very popular at that time, so documentation
 isn't easily available, either (it's even quite hard to get VAXen,
 fortunately I did).
 Thanks in advance,
 Andreas Krennmair 
I have a very ratty paper coverless copy here.:)
I have not seen any thing
on the internet as well. The book covers mostly using a PDP-8 with paper
tape/TTY  or a DECtape (TC08 controler) and the paper tape floating point
package. However programing the PDP-8 is fairly straight forward as you
only few instructions. The biggest problem is the memory limitation of the
PDP-8 -- 128 word pages. A two good 8 links are:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/  basic programing
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8/  software, hardware docs
Downloading the PDP-5 manual may be usefull as the PDP-8 is a similar
product.