Resurrecting the MIT Weather Radar PDP-8/IX (opens in new tab)
Thanks for trying it out! You don’t need OS/8 to run RADAR. The starting address for RADAR is 02000. It will ask for date and time on TTY1, ask you to position the “paper”, and then enter a command loop. For the date you can enter any year you want, but it only correctly interprets years in the range 75-85. I’m going to change that to 26-36. I’ll be pushing a major new release in the next few days. Many general improvements, including the ability to acquire and display simulated radar data. I...
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