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-GTTY (glass teletype) is a lightweight terminal emulation program written by Lyle Bickley to serve as a console for PDP-8 machines. The current iteration is an MS-DOS program that seems to run well in DOSBox. Features include automatic upper-casing and automatic switching between ​7M1 and 8N1 serial protocols depending on whether the program is functioning as a TTY terminal or emulating ​a binary ​PT punch.+GTTY (glass teletype) is a lightweight terminal emulation program written by Lyle Bickley to serve as a console for PDP-8 machines. The current iteration is an MS-DOS program that seems to run well in DOSBox. Features include automatic upper-casing and automatic switching between ​7E1 and 8N1 serial protocols depending on whether the program is functioning as a TTY terminal or a binary ​PTR (paper tape reader).  
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 +gtty.txt includes operation notes and also describes simple hardware modifications to the DEC M8650 and M8655 serial cards to allow gtty to implement reader-run "​pacing"​ for loading FOCAL and multisegment paper tapes.
  
 The accompanying .ZIP file includes documentation,​ a DOS executable and source. The source was written for (and assembles with) Dave Dunfieid'​s micro-C compiler, The accompanying .ZIP file includes documentation,​ a DOS executable and source. The source was written for (and assembles with) Dave Dunfieid'​s micro-C compiler,
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 {{:​dec:​computers:​pdp-8:​new_hardware_and_software:​gtty96a.zip|GTTY_96a}} {{:​dec:​computers:​pdp-8:​new_hardware_and_software:​gtty96a.zip|GTTY_96a}}
  
 +Vince Slyngstad has since updated GTTY to Version 2.0 which is POSIX compliant and compiles under Linux/​Cygwin.
  
 +{{:​dec:​computers:​pdp-8:​new_hardware_and_software:​gtty_2.0.zip|GTTY_2.0}}
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