Category Archives: c-retro
Playing Old Interactive Games (Adventure, Warp, Mystery Mansion) Online
I made a copy of my setup of the simH HP3000 emulator available for download a couple of years ago. There are several downloads of that file every day. Evidently there are a few that really enjoy playing these old … Continue reading
HP3000/XL Series 918 Startup and Shutdown Procedures
Quick video to remind me the proper way to start / stop my HP3000 – a procedure I do very infrequently.
Playing Old Interactive Fiction Games on the HP3000
(Note: as of Apr 2020, these games are available online. If you would rather play them online rather than install the SIMH emulator, see https://wp.me/p3PlCO-D3). Last year I posted instructions on extracting and running the SIMH HP3000 emulation. I have … Continue reading
Upgrade HP3000 SIMH Disk Drive from HP7920 to HP7925
The virtual hard drive that came with SIMH is a 55MB HP7920 disk drive. With just the O/S installed, there isn’t a lot of space left on this drive. This HP3000 can also emulate a 120MB HP7925. This procedure will … Continue reading
Using Kermit to Transfer files to/from SIMH HP3000
After talking to another HP3000 SIMH user who had no viable way to transfer files to the HP3000, I set out to look for something a bit easier than create a simH tape. OK, using kermit still isn’t simple, but … Continue reading
Copy files from an HP3000/XL Computer System to a SIMH HP3000/Classic
In my prior post, Instructions for Emulating an HP3000 with SIMH, my enclosed PDF of instructions discusses getting files onto the SIMH HP3000 using Reflections or creating a SIMH format tape. Both of these options have limitations if you want … Continue reading
Instructions for Emulating an HP3000 with SIMH
The HP3000 minicomputer was the primary system I programmed from 1978 until 1993 when I moved into networking. I have so many fond memories of that system. I knew the hardware and software backward and forward. I was fortunate enough … Continue reading
Telephone System Mechanical SXS Line Finder Video
Last spring I was in Oklahoma City. I flipped thru a website full of things to see and one was the Oklahoma Museum of Telephone History. This ended up being a great tour. It is located in a room in … Continue reading
SIMH PDP-8: Manually Loading the RIM Loader, the Binary Loader, and an Application from Paper Tape
(all PDP-8 blog entries can be seen by clicking here) In my blog entry Assembling/Compiling to SIMH PDP-8 Paper Tape and Executing the Paper Tape Program I loaded the Hello World test program into memory automatically using SIMH’s load command rather … Continue reading
Instructions for Emulating an HP2000 Access Computer System using SIMH
Since I’ve been working on the PDP-8 emulation in past weeks, it occurred to me that I should post my old notes for setting up an HP2000 emulation. The HP2000 was the first computer system I ever used, back in … Continue reading
