7 Sep
2005
7 Sep
'05
11:46 a.m.
a.carlini at ntlworld.com wrote:
If anyone is intrested, and has an 800bpi tape drive,
I have the following tapes (and I'd like an image
copy from them if possible suitable for simh)
1. WORD-11 Version 3.1 for RSTS
Copyright 1977,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86
by Data Processing Design, Inc.
Licensed to: 11/70 #3DK67
Patch Level: 3
4217E 03/26/86 MM0 MT800 1/1 MT800 A9657A 0
2. AP-ZZCOA-08
WORD-11 FOR RSTS/E V2.9
LICENSED TO PATCH LEVEL ?
03/29/84
3. WORD-11 for RSTS/E Version 2.9
Copyright 1977,78,79,80,81,82
by Data Processing Design, Inc.
Licensed to: #
Patch Level: 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1
Gen: 12/21/82 MM0 MT800 A2447A*
3. Unlabeled Data Processing Design, Inc tape
(Glue came unstuck)
Could be Word-11 or their backup program "SAVER"
4. BB-T387A-MC
UDA DIAGS REV 6
1982
5. SAVER V2.8 FOR RSTS
Licensed to: 11/34 #3100
Patch Level 9
3669E 07/23/86 MM0 MT800 1/1 MT800 B09014
6. AP-N963E-BC
BSC+2 V2.4 RSTS/E 8MT9
1987 DIGITAL EQUIP. CORP. 080629
+ Assorted RSTS/E V9 tapes in 800bpi
Anyone willing to read these and create image files?
It would allow showing what Word-11 was.
Kevin Handy wrote:
I used to have a copy of that.
It looked like Word-11 (and all associated other look-alikes)
but had yet another file format.
It would transfer files using the serial line, converting to/from
its format.
Word-11 was writted by DPD(?Data Processing
Design?)
to bring WPS-8 capabilities to the PDP-11.
Originally written in basic, it was later partly recoded
into something else that compiled into executable code (probably
macro and basic+2) to speed it up. DEC later bought it and renamed it
to DecWord, iirc.
I used Word-11 (from the company MASS-11 I thought) back in 1985 or
so for some reports. This was under VAX/VMS. I suppose that, for its
time, it was not too bad. I was glad to upgrade to TeX though!
I don't remember anything by the name of DECword, but there was
a DECwrite. DECwrite bore no resemblance to the Word-11 that I
knew.
As for the original question, somewhere I have a set of
3.5" floppies that claim to implement WPS-PC (or some
not entirely dissimilar name). I can probably dig them
out at some stage if anyone cares enough about them
(and I can find them :-) and they are still readable :-( ).
From what
little I do recall about those floppies, it
looked like a DEC product.
Antonio