DEC RX02-PA?

William Donzelli wdonzelli at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 11:14:43 CDT 2015


The pedestal RX02s are around, but pretty rare. I think they were part
of a PDP-8 based word processor (VT78?), and/or part of the smaller
PDT11 systems.

--
Will

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
> On 2015-08-09 17:48, Ben Sinclair wrote:
>>
>> I found this on eBay, and I'm not sure what it is:
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-DIGITAL-RX02-COMPUTER-SYSTEM-2-FLOPPY-DRIVES-UNTESTED-T27-/181827282211?hash=item2a55c02523
>>
>> I haven't seen RX-02s in a case like this before, and some Googling
>> doesn't seem to reveal much of anything.
>>
>> Does anyone know what this is exactly?
>
>
> That is definitely not an RX02 in the common sense of the word.
> I would like to see a picture where you can see that Digital sticker in a
> larger context, so I can see that it really sits on that cabinet.
>
> The whole cabinet do not even look in the style of DEC cabinets. Very
> strange beast. But who knows. DEC might have built some off one-off or
> something for a special purpose or customer.
>
> (Not to mention that RX02 is not a computer to start with...)
>
>         Johnny
>
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