DECmate was the name of a series of PDP-8-compatible computers produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. All of...
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address in the base register. Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-5 PDP-8 DECmate, a personal computer based on the Intersil 6100 PDP-12 PDP-14 Ford EEC...
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DIBOL-8, was produced for PDP-8 systems running COS-300. The PDP-8-like DECmate II, supports the COS-310 Commercial Operating System, featuring DIBOL....
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microcomputer using a Zilog Z80 to run the CP/M operating system. The VT278 (DECmate) added a small PDP-8 processor, allowing the terminal to run Digital's...
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by: Stanley Rabinowitz, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard yes, with a question-mark! "What is a PDP-8?". PDP-8 and DECmate documentation files. v t e...
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8080- and 8088-based microcomputers of the time. A second offering, the DECmate II was the latest version of the PDP-8-based word processors, but not really...
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Rainbow was launched along with the similarly packaged DEC Professional and DECmate II which were also not successful. The failure of DEC to gain a significant...
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their PDP-8 processors (including the VT78, VT278 DECmate, and PC238 DECmate II and PC24P DECmate III microcomputer systems). WPS-8 supports a variety...
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PDP-8-compatible microprocessor (used in the VT78) 1975 Harris 6120 CMOS single-chip PDP-8-compatible microprocessor (used in the DECmate word processors) 1976...
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family (A, E, F, I, S, L, M) were sold. Later models are also used in the DECmate word processor and the VT-78 workstation. LINC-8 The system contained both...
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VT220 ANSI/ASCII terminal and was subsequently used by the Rainbow-100, DECmate-II, and Pro-350 microcomputers and many of Digital's computer workstations...
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6100 family was used in a number of commercial products, including the DECmate line, DEC's first attempt to produce a personal computer. The Intersil...
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proprietary format, used by Digital Equipment Corporation's Rainbow 100, DECmate II, and Professional 300 Series. It held 400 KB on a single side by using...
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hard drives. COS-310 was one of the operating systems available on the DECmate II. COS-350 was developed to support the PDP-11 port of DIBOL, and was...
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BitSavers. COMPUTERWORLD, June 1984: "OS/278 is available for $74." "Decmate II 08/278 Digital Equipment Corp. has introduced a new version of its OS/8...
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competitors to the IBM PC. Like the cosmetically similar Rainbow 100 and DECmate II (also introduced at that time), the PRO series uses the LK201 keyboard...
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