kenrector.sds-kit/README.md
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#SDS Software Kit This is a collection of software for use with the simh SDS simulator. It is provided in hopes of exciting the interested of those curious about computing during the 1960-1976 period.

##Introduction The SDS 900 Series computers supported paper tape and card unit record systems and the software in this kit predominatly uses these devices.

Included are a cross assembler used on a Mac to produce the included Symbol assembler and tools to help manage and manipulate this stuff; things like a binary object dump, a namelist program and a program to retieve files from a PAL library file.

The SDS programs in the kit are files copied from a 9-track tape that was created by the SDS PAL library back in 1982. This file is from the bitsaver.org archives, M300-19820128.tap.

The SDS basic paper tape loader program, 850644, is included in the kit as an example to experiment with the SDS recon and Symbol assembler programs. The work to put this kit together was done on a Mac. I don't know what will happen using this stuff on other platforms

##Files

File Description

850640 SEMI-AUTOMATIC TYPEWRITER TEST

850644 BINARY INPUT-BASIC PAPER TAPE LOADER

850645 UNIVERSAL LOADER

850647 ENCODED TO SYMBOLIC RECONSTRUCTOR(RECON)

850648 BINARY INPUT ONE CARD LOADER

850649 BINARY INPUT-TWO CARD LOADER

850657 CARD PUNCH TEST PROGRAM PACKAGE

850816 910/925 ALGOL 60 BASIC 4K SYSTEM

890548 BINARY TO SYMBOLIC TRANSLATOR

cross assembler Assemble SYMBOL programs on a MAC

fortransa 920/930 FORTRAN II SYSTEM (STAND ALONE)

symbol Symbol assembler and command files

tests A magtape test, so far

tools Possibly useful tools