15 Oct
2008
15 Oct
'08
9:40 a.m.
In article <48F46D03.16024.296E9D04 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
It's been awhile since I owned a couple of
SuperBees, but they used
welded-aluminum slab-sided cases and not the fiberglass one shown in
the photo. The whole front CRT area was covered with a sheet of
brown-tinted acrylic, held on with velcro-ish plastic fasteners. The
keyboard itself was parallel output ASCII and had two shades of beige
for most keys with yellow special-function keys. Several keys had
little round "windows" illuminated by bi-pin lamps. The keyboard
case could have been aluminum, but might also have been die-cast zinc-
-I don't recall, except that it didn't have the sharp corners the
main unit did.
Yes, this is exactly the kind of Beehive terminal we were using.
CPU in these was an 8008 with shift-register storage.
Interesting! I didn't realize it was shift-register storage for the
display, but that makes sense.
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