5 Nov
2022
5 Nov
'22
9:11 a.m.
Hi folks!
Is there anyone out there, who can help me with my Beehive Topper
CP/M machine?
The machine starts up with his self-test going o.k.
Then it requests for the boot disk or pressing RETURN to start
the Monitor V2.0 program.
The Monitor program seems to work o.k.
Booting a disk (written from the images out of the Maslin archive)
puts some cryptic characters of the screen and hangs the machine.
The images are for a Topper II, mine is a model Topper.
Is this the problem?
I have found very very little about the Topper machines,
no manuals, no software, no schematics.
R. Harten
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5 Nov
5 Nov
3:45 p.m.
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 17:17, Harten via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi folks!
Is there anyone out there, who can help me with my Beehive Topper
CP/M machine?
One of these?
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/vud92z/weve_found_a_beehiv…
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3:55 p.m.
On 11/5/22 15:45, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 17:17, Harten via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Isn't that just a B1 terminal?
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/beehive/ads/Beehive_Micro_B1.jpg
--Chuck
Hi folks!
Is there anyone out there, who can help me with my Beehive Topper
CP/M machine?
One of these?
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/vud92z/weve_found_a_beehiv…
7 p.m.
I've never heard of Beehive making anything but terminals but then everyone
and their mother corporation were making CP/M computers at one point so
it's certainly both plausible and possible.
Sellam
On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 4:05 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 11/5/22 15:45, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/vud92z/weve_found_a_beehiv…
Isn't that just a B1 terminal?
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/beehive/ads/Beehive_Micro_B1.jpg
--Chuck
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 17:17, Harten via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Hi folks!
Is there anyone out there, who can help me with my Beehive Topper
CP/M machine?
One of these?
7:13 p.m.
Iam looking for the beehive has detached keyboard upper case oly tanish caseI was king of
uppercase only on the hp2000 with that. Needs to be clean an if working that is a bonus!
Upper case forsever ubies. Hah!!!!!
Drop me a line with photo, condition and price!Ed#
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On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 4:05 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote: On 11/5/22 15:45, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 17:17, Harten via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Isn't that just a B1 terminal?
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/beehive/ads/Beehive_Micro_B1.jpg
--Chuck
Hi folks!
Is there anyone out there, who can help me with my Beehive Topper
CP/M machine?
One of these?
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/vud92z/weve_found_a_beehiv…
6 Nov
6 Nov
6:42 a.m.
On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 at 00:05, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Isn't that just a B1 terminal?
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/beehive/ads/Beehive_Micro_B1.jpg
Could well be.
I had to go out and didn't have time to write a longer message. As
indeed I don't know.
I found that quickly and merely wanted to demonstrate that, yes, there
is quite a lot of reference to the Beehive Topper on the WWW, but yes,
as OP said, most relates to the Topper II.
I just searched for
beehive topper "cp/m"
and found dozens to hundreds of pages with links and downloads, but
most referred to the Topper II.
All I am saying is that it is out there but some Google Fu may be required.
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7:32 a.m.
Here are some stubs of information I found via Google Books search:
Ad in Computer World (October 25, 1982)
https://books.google.com/books?id=75XGp5bJW1UC&pg=RA1-PA16-IA13&dq=…
Describes the Topper as a 3270 compatible terminal online and a CP/M
personal computer offline.
Infosystems (Volume 30, 1983)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Infosystems/zldUAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbp…
Google restricts the view to just a few lines.
For what it was worth,
Sellam
On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 6:42 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 at 00:05, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> One of these?
>
>
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/vud92z/weve_found_a_beehiv…
Isn't that just a B1 terminal?
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/beehive/ads/Beehive_Micro_B1.jpg
Could well be.
I had to go out and didn't have time to write a longer message. As
indeed I don't know.
I found that quickly and merely wanted to demonstrate that, yes, there
is quite a lot of reference to the Beehive Topper on the WWW, but yes,
as OP said, most relates to the Topper II.
I just searched for
beehive topper "cp/m"
and found dozens to hundreds of pages with links and downloads, but
most referred to the Topper II.
All I am saying is that it is out there but some Google Fu may be required.
--
Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
Email: lproven(a)cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven(a)gmail.com
Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven
UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420)
702-829-053
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