FW: DEC WT/78?

<Hugh Henderson &lt;hendronicus(a)hotmail.com&gt; <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. Ok, the WT78 is one of DECs early compact word processing systems. The CPU is the intersil 6100 (PDP-8 reduced to a chip). The RX02 is nto acomputer but a disk box and controller for 256k/512k 8" floppies. (others in that family are the DECmate, DECmateII and DECmateIII) < It does try to boot, but I don't have the system disk. I'd sure love <to see the beast run. The images for the disks(both WPS and OS/78) are on the net and you would need a system that can create 8" disks. Alternately someone that has a system with RX02 disks (they were used on PDP-8, PDP-11 systems). < What does it run? What kind of processors does it use? It has network <and modem connections. The primary processor that runs the OS is a varient of the PDP-8 family reduced to a single chip. The disk system has it's own processor but that is not user programmable. It _does_not_ have network connections. The idea of a network at that time was unrealistic for such a low end machine. The modem connection however is eaxactly that and could be used to connect the machine to a host for file transfers. <How do you use those, and what were they originally for? It was originally used for word processing running WPS78, it also runs OS/78 an older PDP-8 operating system that looks a tiny bit like DOS. Allison