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1 total messages Started by Winston Smith Tue, 05 Jan 1993 10:07

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Author: Winston Smith
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 10:07

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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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