12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
11:55 a.m.
From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov>
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
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:19:37PM -0700, Rich
Bramante wrote:
I made a nice little collection of software by copying the ones at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/diskimag…
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.
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. (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.