The first in DEC' s series of miniaturised PDP-8 computers based on the Intersil 6120 [Harris 6120?] microprocessor and dedicated to wordprocessing.The DECmate was DEC' s original competition for the IBM PC.The DECmate I was introduced in 1980 as the successor to the WT78.The processor ran at 10 MHz, and was housed in a VT100CRT terminal.It was a very limted model, no EAE option was available, memory was 32 Kwords.It used the RX02 8" dual floppy drive.Options were the DP278-A and -B communication ports and RL278: 1 to 4 RL02cartridge disk drives..[Processor manufacturer?](2003-05-29)