Keyboard for Beehive Terminal (was B-100)?

In article <48F431CF.5060806 at msu.edu>, Josh Dersch <derschjo at msu.edu> writes: That seems right. We used to use Super Bees at Project DELTA at the University of Delaware in the late 70s/early 80s. They were prone to failure, particularly capacitors IIRC. I have been actively searching for Beehive terminals and so far have only come up with terminals that are in moderate state of needing repair. One was OEM rebranded Cromemco and sold for more than typical on ebay due to the Cromemco-ness. That one has some sort of problem with input from the keyboard. I picked up a couple more Beehive terminals from Neil on this list. These have a keyboard that is similar to the one used with a Super Bee; you can see a picture of this similar keyboard here: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/tmp/beehive.jpg> The exact key layout and labelling was different for the Super Bee compared to what you see in that picture. At one point we had an ASCII animation notes program running where people would edit and type in their ASCII animations for playback on the terminal. I think that might have been a first compared to what other people were doing with public notes forums. As a time sharing shop, we were heavily influenced by the udel PLATO installation that ran concurrently with us. They had fancy graphics terminals, but we had Super Bees :-). I remember these terminals failing in an interesting way when they started to overheat. Bits in the display memory would start flipping causing characters at random positions on the screen to spontaneously change. We learned a quick key sequence that would clear the screen and then request a repaint from the host in order to restore the screen to sanity in the summer. (Our office didn't have air conditioning, so we had to live with the summer heat and humidity.) If you want to unload this "project", I'm happy to take it off your hands :-). Also, this serivce manual for the HP 2615 terminal, a rebadged Beehive, looks like it might have similarities to that terminal: <http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/terminal/02615-90004_2615svc_Apr75.pdf> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>