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> > Say Jerry, wasn't the DEC PDP 8 (the Robin I think it was called) used > > for word processing for the IBM PC went to market??? The VT180 (Robin) was a VT100 with a card cage adapter (yes, the VT100 had SLOTS) connecting it to an external unit with Z-80 SBC and a pair of Shuggart 801 8" floppy drives. Like most Z-80 gear, It ran CP/M. The DECmate was a dedicated word processor system built around the DEC 238 12-bit microprocessor, effectively a PDP-8 on a chip. The DEC Professional was a PDP-11 (LSI11) desktop. Pro350 used a T11, the Pro380 used the J11. It ran a scaled-down version of RSX-11 called "Professional Operating System" and it was. We had a port of BSD 2.7 or 2.8 (V7M-11, Ultrix-11) that we ran on it in-house but never sold. The DEC Rainbow was an 8086 box that was "better" (in that special DEC way) than a PC and almost compatible with it. The VAXMate was another intel-based vogon misadventure that was effectively a new and innovative way to siphon cycles off your VAX while doing nothing particularly interesting at your desktop. My favorite paperweight of the era? The VAXStation2000, of course. The again I do so fondly remember the VAX-11/725 with it's primary storage on the removable RC-25 disk cartridge system. ccb - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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