Help me! Before I take the plunge

[Kevin Handy]

Lyle Bickley wrote:

>On Thursday 31 March 2005 22:49, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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>>OS/278 has the necessary patches to deal with the differences in the
>>console IOT behavior that was well described in another post.  Dunno
>>about download, but you'd have a problem with the downloaded file,
>>since the RX02 format can _not_ be written by a PC FDC (it's a hybrid
>>format that only the RX02 drive (and DEC-compatible 3rd-party
>>drives/controllers) can write.
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>I have a couple of DECMATE IIs and I use PUTR (running under DOS) to format 
>RX50 diskettes and transfer files to the diskettes.  I've also used TELEDISK 
>to copy entire diskettes that I have downloaded  and have created virtually 
>all of the system programs on RX50 diskettes (OS/278, Word Processing, DIBOL, 
>etc.) that run on a DECMATE II.
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>I haven't worked with a DECMATE I since the original one I used at work many 
>years ago - but as I recollect it is not anywhere near as flexible as a 
>DECMATE II (which has HDD capability - which I've implimented in both my 
>DECMATE IIs).
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I believe the DecMate-I could use RL02's. Never saw one set up that way,
but it was in the advertisements.

>The DECMATE I could still be a fun system to own - and if you can find DECMATE 
>I system images, both PUTR and TELEDISK will make it easy for you to create 
>entire copies of diskettes (TELEDISK), format (PUTR) and transfer files 
>(PUTR).
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>Cheers,
>Lyle
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