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  "path": "/story/145157/decmate-ii-the-little-pdp-8-that-could/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-31T06:39:37.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.osnews.com",
  "tags": [
    "Retro computing"
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  "textContent": "When Cameron Kaiser speaks, we listen. In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional, Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 minicomputer market-relevant by turning the venerable architecture into a largely incompatible desktop microcomputer. But that wasn’t the only PDP-series mini it happened to, and it wasn’t even the first: the PDP-8 actually got the shrink-ray treatment several years before, and not content to merely make it into a smaller general purpose computer, DEC turned it into a word processor. ↫ Cameron Kaiser at Old Vintage Computing A word processor that’s still sort of a PDP-8 inside, and that could run CP/M or even DOS using a Z80 or 8086 expansion card.",
  "title": "DECmate II: the little PDP-8 that could"
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