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From: TALLEY-J@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James T. Talley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: DecMate to PC transfer
Keywords: DecMate DOS PC transfer communications
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Date: 2 Nov 88 16:36:46 GMT
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Does anyone know of a reasonably inexpensive way to transfer
documents stored on old DecMate 8 inch floppy disks to an MS-DOS
PC?  Plain text files without the word processing formatting
would be fine.  The people with the disks and the PC have 2
DecMates, but neither has the communications option board.  Are
the communications boards available somewhere, or is it possible
to make a cable to do the transfer through the printer port on
the DecMate?  If anyone has any information on this or has
transferred documents theirselves, I'd appreciate hearing about
it.

James Talley
talley-j@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu