Tony,
At 01:24 AM 5/19/00 +0100, you wrote:
Yesterday I picked up one of my more unusual finds, a Beehive MicroB
terminal that looks like it's new in the box. See pictures at
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/beehive/b4.jpg" through
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/beehive/b9.jpg". You can see in
picture b7 that it was still sealed up in a plastic bag inside the box.
Does anyone want this? I don't need it and I don't have room to keep
it. I powered it up today and it appears to work. You can see in the last
picture that it does have a raster and cursor. I don't have a systemn that
uses a terminal so I can't test it beyond that. The screen is normal but
Don't you still have that 11/73 you were asking about last week. That
could use this as a terminal, surely.
Yes, but it's over at someone else house at the moment.
And are you saying that you don't have _any_ other machine with an RS232
port? Surely you have _something_ that can send and receive characters?
Of course I do. I can alway use the over abundant PCs. But I don't want
to take the time to figure out the port pinouts and make a cable.
And 95% of all terminals only need the data leads on the RS232 connector
(there may be a setup option for this). In which case shorting pin 2 to
pin 3 on the RS232 connector will do a loopback test --
I thought about that but I ran out of time and had to put it away for
the evening. Wouldn't you have to jumper the handshaking signals too? I
don't know which of them this terminal requires. I didn't get a manual for
it. :-(
anything you type
on the keyboard should appear on the screen. That
doesn't test
_everything_ (for example the baud rate could be wildly off, but if it
uses the same rate for Tx and Rx, this test would pass), but it will
check much of the terminal logic.
Joe