TSS/8 is a timesharing system for the DEC PDP-8 designed by Adrian van de Goor, a grad student at CMU. It originally required a specific hardware configuration of the PDP-8, 8I or 8E incorporating the RF08 with at least one RS08 or a DF32. At LCM+L TSS/8 has been modified by Josh Dersch to run on a PDP-8/e with DECtapes and RK05 disk drives.

SURVIVAL NOTES

1. Commands must be typed in UPPER CASE
2. LOGIN will not echo
3. Job control: CTRL-BS will suspend the existing job and return to the monitor - START will reenter
4. R CAT will list your directory
5. R BASIC will run BASIC
6. R HELP:* will list all subsystems that have online HELP documentation

The EDUsystem-50 provides fairly accurate documentation for TSS/8.24 and is available here:

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/tss8/DEC-08-E50UA-A-D_UG_Aug75.pdf