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- From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
- Subject: [--- DECMATE PDP-8 ---]
- Message-ID: <C0DLGH.81B@merk.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 10:07:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: merk.C0DLGH.81B
- Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
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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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