Subject: Re: [--- DECMATE PDP-8 ---]

From: [email-masked] (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:02:12 GMT

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>From article <[email-masked]>, by [email-masked] (Winston Smith):
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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....
|