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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
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- Subject: Re: What to do with DECmates?
- Keywords: DECmate
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:45:19 GMT
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- andrewm@IRIS.bio.uts.EDU.AU (Andrew Mears) writes:
- >I have two old Digital Equipment DECmate II v1.5.0 word processing systems
- >that I wish to either make use of or dispose of. I know very little about
- >these machines and was wondering if anybody can fill me in on the most recent
- >of this now discontinued software. Can I obtain Unix or another useful OS for
- >them? What can I do with them other than turn them into sea anchors?
- *----
- If you have the paper tape reader, you can probably run Link-8.
- It's not very unix-like, or useful, for that matter.
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- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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