DECmate III restoration

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Fri May 7 01:24:29 1999

During a (somewhat enforced) break from work, I decided to start work on
restoring some of my old collection of computers. I decided to start on my
DECmate III (I've never played with one before).

All seems OK, on power up the screen comes on, all four lights on the LK201
come on and the RX50s start and accesses the floppy I found in the drive
(notated DM/WPS System Diskette V2.1.2 Backup Copy - Working). All I now
get is 16 sitting in the middle of the screen and a large cursor in the top
left corner of the screen. I'm guessing either the floppy is bad or I need
another/more.

I've organized a colleague to bring home a 5.25" floppy drive which will
get installed in my NT/Alpha box. I guess I need pointers to what I need to
do to get the DECmate running WPS and what I need to install OS/278 which I
what I really want to do with this box.

Pointers to a simple terminal emulation program would be useful - the
DECmate will spend at least some of it's life as the console to my home
network gateway/firewall....

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