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Article #82Re: [--- DECMATE PDP-8 ---]
From: Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,319335...
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 15:02
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 15:02
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Reposted from comp.sys.dec.micro, so please send E-mail replies to the address below, not to me. From article <C0DLGH.81B@merk.com>, by winston@merk.com (Winston Smith): | | I have a DECMATE I (PDP-8) and an RX02 Pedestal. I currently use the | DECMATE as a VT52, but I was wondering if this machine could actually be | used for telecomm or anything else apart from word processing. The word | processing program that came with it was very nice, but just about | --EVERY-- keypress caused disk I/O to occur, which lead me to wonder if the | DECMATE I had any addressable RAM for data, apart from the program space. | Are there any utilities or programming languages made for this thing, or do | I essentially have a dataterminal? I realize that 4K to 8K was probably | considered an expansive amount of memory back in the days when this thing | was made, but I am wondering if it can do anything else? (Games written | with a PDP-8 assembler, perhaps? LIFE ? LEM ? SPACEWAR! ? PONG ?....) | Is the RX02 Pedestal useful for anything? (that is, assuming I could find | some floppies for it....) I'm curious.... |
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.uiowa.edu!news From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) Subject: Re: [--- DECMATE PDP-8 ---] Sender: news@news.uiowa.edu (News) Message-ID: <1993Jan5.150212.26676@news.uiowa.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:02:12 GMT References: <C0DLGH.81B@merk.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Lines: 19