12 Jun
1998
12 Jun
'98
11:33 p.m.
Can somebody help this budding DEC-head:
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Hugh Henderson <hendronicus(a)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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