<Hugh Henderson <hendronicus_at_hotmail.com>
<saginaw, MI USA - Friday, June 12, 1998 at 18:07:56
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<I rescued a Digital WT/78 word terminal with a Digital RX02 computer
<attached.
Ok, the WT78 is one of DECs early compact word processing systems. The
CPU is the intersil 6100 (PDP-8 reduced to a chip). The RX02 is nto
acomputer but a disk box and controller for 256k/512k 8" floppies.
(others in that family are the DECmate, DECmateII and DECmateIII)
< It does try to boot, but I don't have the system disk. I'd sure love
<to see the beast run.
The images for the disks(both WPS and OS/78) are on the net and you would
need a system that can create 8" disks. Alternately someone that has
a system with RX02 disks (they were used on PDP-8, PDP-11 systems).
< What does it run? What kind of processors does it use? It has network
<and modem connections.
The primary processor that runs the OS is a varient of the PDP-8 family
reduced to a single chip. The disk system has it's own processor but
that is not user programmable.
It _does_not_ have network connections. The idea of a network at that
time was unrealistic for such a low end machine. The modem connection
however is eaxactly that and could be used to connect the machine to a
host for file transfers.
<How do you use those, and what were they originally for?
It was originally used for word processing running WPS78, it also runs
OS/78 an older PDP-8 operating system that looks a tiny bit like DOS.
Allison
Received on Sat Jun 13 1998 - 09:23:19 BST