FW: DEC WT/78?

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Sat Jun 13 06:33:35 1998

>
> Can somebody help this budding DEC-head:
>
> <<
> Hugh Henderson <hendronicus_at_hotmail.com>
> saginaw, MI USA - Friday, June 12, 1998 at 18:07:56
>
> I rescued a Digital WT/78 word terminal with a Digital RX02 computer
> attached.
> It does try to boot, but I don't have the system disk. I'd sure love
> to see the beast run.
> If somebody knows anything about this computer, I hope you'll contact
> me.
> What does it run? What kind of processors does it use? It has network
> and modem connections.
> How do you use those, and what were they originally for?
>
> As you see, I'm a pretty curious guy>:)
> >>

Neat find. A WT/78 also known as a VT78 (I think) was a PDP8 on a chip
inside a VT52 terminal. This machine runs (usually) DEC's WPS-8
word processing software which is quite nice (and also my favorite
word processor for document editing). I think it can also run
the other PDP8 based OS's... like OS/278 (which is the later OS/8
stuff updated to run on the Decmate II and III).

Bill

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