From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:19:37PM -0700, Rich Bramante wrote:
> > Any floppy images I can snag
>
> Almost certainly there are, but I can't recall off the top of my head
> where you need to go.
I made a nice little collection of software by copying the ones at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/diskimages/rx50/teledisk/
onto actual floppies. Loved the games disk images there, too :-).
You can also Google around for "dm1011.zip" and you'll turn up several other
places where these disk images live.
They are Teledisk images, so you'll need a box with 5.25" diskettes and DOS.
> > (will it boot from floppy?)
>
> Absolutely. You might need an older machine to write out RX50 images
> to a diskette, though. ISTR there are problems with trying to use
> 5.25" drives on newer PeeCee motherboards, but that might be more of
> a problem with recent Microsoft operating systems, than problems with
> recent motherboards/chipsets.
Mine has no hard disk, but I don't miss it much. The floppies hold about
the same as a DECtape would have (but are much faster :-)).
If you want to run FOCAL on your DECmate, I can tell you which word to patch
:-).
Vince
Received on Thu Aug 12 2004 - 18:55:47 BST