Feedback about the PDP-8/E Simulator

• You are the first person I know to accurately simulate any DECtape […]. You did an incredible job with your TC08/TU56 simulator. I am still amazed to this day!
  Private e-mail from Kyle Owen, 15.09.2023
• So, I’ve got a spankin’ brand new PDP-8/E (simulator) — thanks Bernhard for a masterpiece…
  Will Senn in alt.sys.pdp8, 27.01.2022
• Der Simulator von Bernhard Baehr ist sicher der ausgefeilteste grafische Simulator. Der unterstützt seit kurzem auch den Tapecontroller TC08, was eine echte Besonderheit ist. Ganz tolle Leistung, Chapeau.
  gnupublic at www.classic-computing.de, 02.06.2021
• I‘ve been using your simulator to develop code for my real PDP-8e. It‘s a great tool for this purpose. If it works on your simulator, it works on the real machine.
  Private e-mail from Martin Eberhard, 22.03.2020
• This is a really cool piece of fun yet serious software! Brilliant. Ahhh, thems was the days!!
  “Phoenixdownunder” at MacUpdate, 09.12.2019
• PDP8/E for MacOS
  Hours of fun for Grandpa and the whole family
  Peter Walker at Google+, 23.05.2018
• First, your emulator is awesome! I’ve played with it off an on since the early 90’s.
  Private e-mail from Keven Ogden, 02.12.2014
• First of all, let me tell you how much I have appreciated your awesome work on your emulator. As a proud owner of several PDP-8 systems, I have found your emulator to be invaluable when it comes to debugging some of my software issues. Not to mention the portability of a MacBook over the real hardware!
  Private e-mail from Kyle Owen, 28.01.2014
• I bought a Mac Mini several years ago just so I could try that. Very impressive.
  “tradde” at The Vintage Computer, 12.04.2013
• Bernhard Baehr’s freakin’ awesome Mac OS X-based PDP-8 simulator. This thing can pretend to be a PDP-8 you can only dream of :)
  Stack the DEC: devoted to the PDP-8, 06.09.2009
• PDP-8/E Simulator does a fantastic job of bringing the PDP-8 to life on your desktop, offering more functionality than the original.
  MAKE magazine, vol. 5, 2006, p. 182
• Boy oh boy! You want to see a nice, operational simulation of a running antique computer? This one is nicely refined.
  Dave Lion in his review of the PDP-8/E Simulator, without date (found 15.01.2006)
• Fantastic - that’s all I can say.
  “Hans” from Austria at VersionTracker, 04.12.2002
• Outstanding!
  Paul Norman at VersionTracker, 02.12.2002
• The best PDP-8 emulator I've seen, I've used it to help get real hardware up and running.
  healyzh AT aracnet DOT com, before 12.12.2001
• This certainly brings back memories!
  Ed Yourdon (in 1965, author of the PAL III assembler for the PDP-8) at VersionTracker, 01.12.2002
• Absolutely brilliant!
  It’s amazing, innovative software like this that allows us “modern” computer users to get a good taste of what computing was like back in the good ol’ days!
  “Huxley” at VersionTracker, 01.12.2002
• Everything works great and I am once again enjoying being able to run a PDP/8 machine using OS/8. Your emulator works great.
  Private e-mail from Bill Tello, 04.11.2001
• If you don’t own a PDP-8 (sadly, nor do I), I can highly recommend Bernhard Baehr’s slick PDP-8/E Simulator for Macintosh, which apart from being attractive and usable, has the impressive virtue of running on all system software versions from 2 through OS X.
  Telegraphics software
• I am very impressed that the accuracy of the implementation even duplicates the input buffer overflow condition when reading paper tapes in FOCAL. You sure put a lot of authenticity in the emulation.
  Private e-mail from Stephen Holland, 09.08.2001
• I really got a kick out of loading up the emulator on the Mac. […] The effect of turning off the power is hilarious!
  Private e-mail from Stephen Holland, 07.08.2001
• Kudos on your PDP-8 Simulator
  I’ve been really amazed by your emulator, and I took it to a recent DEC collectors’ group meeting, where people really liked seeing it. Today at The Computer Museum, there was a retrospective on Digital Equipment Corporation, and many people were there. I took it to show it off again, and showed it to a number of amazed people, including Ritchie Lary, the OS/8 author, who was very, very impressed.
  Private e-mail from Jon Callas, 17.06.2001
• I have experienced your PDP-8/E Virtual Machine Environment and found it marvelous.
  Private e-mail from Aaron Harwood, 28.02.2001
• Emulate-em for the mind
  Here’s a line that ought to strike fear into the hearts of many: “The PDP-8/E and the I/O devices can completely be controlled using AppleScript.” Where the heck did this come from? From an announcement about the latest version of a PDP-8/E simulator for the Mac. For those of you too young or too insular to know what this is, it’s history, baby! Without Digital Equipment’s PDP foray into the minicomputer scene, much of what we know as personal computers today would be much, much different.
  And as a note to Mac developers - beat this! “It runs on 68K and Power Macintosh computers with System 2 to Mac OS X Public Beta and on the Macintosh emulator vMac.”
  MacEdition, 02.01.2001
• For OS X, a REALLY Retro Interface
  Nobody gave it to you for Christmas, so you’ll just have to give yourself this PDP-8/E emulator. Fortunately it’s free, GPL’d, and Carbonized.
  Dr. Dobb’s Journal, 01.01.2001
• Way cool
  Roger Ivie in alt.sys.pdp8, 23.12.2000
• Definitely a slick piece of work.
  Roger Ivie in alt.sys.pdp8, 25.02.2000
• I’ve been playing around with your PDP simulator, and I just wanted to say that you’ve done a really great job!
  Private e-mail from Huck Dunsany, 28.10.1999
• God bless you and your PDP8 simulator
  Private e-mail from Bill Coderre, 17.02.1998
• Very cool! Finally a good use for the Mac! :)
  Private e-mail from jankowiak(?), 16.02.1998
• Looks like a nicely done simulator.
  Private e-mail from Bob Grant, 28.12.1996
• I have got the simulator working on my SE - it’s wonderfull!
  Private e-mail from Doug Peksa, 02.08.1996
• Thanks for sending me a copy… it works wonderfully, and I am very happy.
  Private e-mail from David S. Bennahum, 08.07.1996
• Congradulations! […] Many Thanks for an interesting project!
  Private e-mail from Steve Cavrak, 03.01.1996
• I’d like a copy of the simulator. I have the previous version, and it’s great!
  Private e-mail from Patrick Scheible, 20.12.1995
• Brilliant. Thankyou.
  Private e-mail from Iain Hardcastle, 06.07.1995
• I finally got some time to play with your simulator. Very Nice!
  Private e-mail from Dave Murphy, 27.02.1995
• Und Danke und WOW! und Respekt: Dieser Simulator ist an liebevollem Detail wohl kaum zu überbieten. Die bunte Aboutbox läßt regelmäßig mein Herz schmelzen :)
  Private e-mail from Helge Horch, 23.01.1995
• I’ll play around with it and see how it works (although it looks pretty good).
  Private e-mail from Peter J. Weingartner, 12.12.1994