DECMate II

[Ethan Dicks]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:25:33PM -0400, trash3 at splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
> I looked through my floppy library and came across three floppies that
> might help.
> 
> They are labelled Decmate Software, copyright 1985, DM/WPS utility
> diskette 2.0 and DM/WPS system diskette v2.0.  Don't know which version of
> decmate they are for, but they are 5.25 inch, not 8 inch.

The PDP-8/a-based WPS systems, the VT78, and the DECmate I all used 8" disks.
The DECmate II was primarily RX50 (5.25") based, but could take an option
card to use 8" disks (presumably to help those customers with documents 
from older systems).  The DECmate III and III+ only used RX50 floppies.

-ethan

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