cliffmiller
Member
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2021
- Messages
- 12
Bought a DM3 off auction with display and keyboard. Seller said it lived in a closet at his office for years. No floppies, etc, dusty with a missing keycap or two. I’m a sucker for PDP-8’s though shipping a CRT sounds terrible.
Shows up on my front doorstep and the CRT is in thick bubblewrap and seemed intact. Keyboard missing a few more keys but they’re in the box loose however sadly broken. System box looks great except front panel was facing down and is in two dozen shards of plastic.
I collected the loose plastic and keycap pieces in a baggie and hauled it all upstairs. Excitement when I found the top floppy drive contained a disk labelled ‘WPS’!
Connected it all up and of course even faceless, booted and worked fine! I used the remnants of a keycap to press the ‘6’ key to enter the date as 1996.
Both keyboard and system box should have been bubble wrapped but then I appreciate the CRT working after being used in a USPS basketball simulation.
Soooo -
Decmate III floppy images ??? Flashfloppy ???
Shows up on my front doorstep and the CRT is in thick bubblewrap and seemed intact. Keyboard missing a few more keys but they’re in the box loose however sadly broken. System box looks great except front panel was facing down and is in two dozen shards of plastic.
I collected the loose plastic and keycap pieces in a baggie and hauled it all upstairs. Excitement when I found the top floppy drive contained a disk labelled ‘WPS’!
Connected it all up and of course even faceless, booted and worked fine! I used the remnants of a keycap to press the ‘6’ key to enter the date as 1996.
Both keyboard and system box should have been bubble wrapped but then I appreciate the CRT working after being used in a USPS basketball simulation.
Soooo -
Decmate III floppy images ??? Flashfloppy ???