Top Document: PDP-8 Summary of Models and Options (posted every other month) Previous Document: What is a DECmate II? Next Document: What is a DECmate III+? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date of introduction: 1984 Date of withdrawal: 1990 Also known as: PC23P-Ax/LH -- where x gave the monitor color A (B/W), J(Grn), S(Amb). Price: $2,695 - $2885 Technology: Same as the DECmate II. Reason for introduction: Again, DEC discovered that the market for large systems was dominated by other products, and that the PDP-8 based products were rarely expanded to their full potential. Thus, there was no point in paying the price for expandability. Compatability: Same as the DECmate II, except that the printer port is fixed at 4800 baud. Standard Configuration: The DECmate III was sold with 32K of program memory, plus a second full bank for dedicated control panel functions, an integral RX50 dual 5 1/4 inch diskette drive with an 8051 controller chip, a printer port, a 100Hz real-time-clock, a data communications port, and interfaces for the VR-201 monitor and keyboard. Expandability: A revised version of the Z80 based coprocessor for the DECmate II was available for $430 (PC23X-AB/LH), and a graphics board largely compatable with the later DECmate II graphics board could be added for $630 (PC23X-CA/LH), allowing the standard monochrome monitor to be replaced with a VR-241 color monitor. Dual monitor configurations were not supported. An obscure variant of the DEC scholar modem was also supported for $630 (PC23X-DA/LH). Survival: As with the DECmate I. User Contributions:Top Document: PDP-8 Summary of Models and Options (posted every other month) Previous Document: What is a DECmate II? Next Document: What is a DECmate III+? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jones@cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones)
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