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From: bekele@fsadmn.dec.com (DTN: 435-5387/2817)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DEC to IBM
Message-ID: <8903020039.AA07077@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 2 Mar 89 00:39:24 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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<...!arizona!naucse!jdc> <CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet> writes:
 
> Really, you shouldn't post if you're "unfamiliar" with one of the machines.
> The DECMate, vanilla--without a Z80 board, has no operating system--it is
> generally used as a proprietary word processing system.  
 
The originals were the "WT78" & "WS78".  With an 8" floppy drives, they were 
for the most part word processing "workstations". Latter the VT278 was added 
and that machine, called DECmate I, ran both the word processing package
(WPS-8) as well as "COS-310, an operating system, I am certain, a few "old 
time" readers of this file fondly remember.

Latter, DEC packaged the DECmate I into a smaller PC-like box with 5 1/4" 
drives (optionally a Winchester drive with 5/10/20 meg) that you could put 
a Z80 card (or an XPU card) to run CP/M inaddition to the aformentioned.  
This machine is known as DECmate II.  There is, yet, a smaller box that runs 
the same software as the DMII called DECmate III.

With the exception of the WT78 all DECmate versions run COS-310 and you 
could write code using DIBOL for these machines.  

Now that we have gotten our "DEChistory" straight, back to the original 
question:  

> In article <73511JET3@PSUVM> JET3@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>>Let's try this again with a little more information.  I have a person here
>>who would like to transfer their DEC files to an IBM....

What are you trying to transfer?  WPS-8 documents? COS-310 files? CP/M 
files? DOS files?