DECmate III restoration

During a (somewhat enforced) break from work, I decided to start work on restoring some of my old collection of computers. I decided to start on my DECmate III (I've never played with one before). All seems OK, on power up the screen comes on, all four lights on the LK201 come on and the RX50s start and accesses the floppy I found in the drive (notated DM/WPS System Diskette V2.1.2 Backup Copy - Working). All I now get is 16 sitting in the middle of the screen and a large cursor in the top left corner of the screen. I'm guessing either the floppy is bad or I need another/more. I've organized a colleague to bring home a 5.25" floppy drive which will get installed in my NT/Alpha box. I guess I need pointers to what I need to do to get the DECmate running WPS and what I need to install OS/278 which I what I really want to do with this box. Pointers to a simple terminal emulation program would be useful - the DECmate will spend at least some of it's life as the console to my home network gateway/firewall.... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"