16 Jul
2006
16 Jul
'06
10:34 p.m.
On Monday 17 July 2006 01:15 am, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
The tape drive in mine was pretty cruddy when I got it, but a good cleaning
seems to have helped that a lot.
The machine itself doesn't stir any recollections at all, but then it really
has been a heck of a long time since I've seen any of that stuff. I'm trying
to remember when it was that I acquired that machine and I haven't nailed it
down to a year yet. Those drives with all the red connectors sure do look
familiar, though, what make are they?
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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On Sunday 16 July 2006 19:47, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Gotcha.
On Sunday 16 July 2006 07:33 pm, Patrick Finnegan
wrote:
A TS-806 is a multi-user computer that could run things like MMMOST to
connect to TS-800 diskless terminals.
A TS-806C is a shared tape drive. All it has is a tape drive, a Z80 board
with some firmware (it doesn't boot anything), 64k ram, and what are
probably a pair of 15-pin RS422 ports to connect back to the hosts. So, I picked up some new toys at "The
Event" yesterday, and I was
wondering...
Does anyone happen to have copies of CP/M (or any other OS) for
Televideo's TS-801? These seem to have a pair of 5.25" DSDD 48tpi
drives, from what little information I've seen from google. I picked
up a pair of TS-801's and a TS-806C (not to be confused with a TS-806),
which is a "shared tape drive" box.
What's the difference between a TS-806 and a TS-806C, not to be confused
with? I have a
TS-816 in storage. A bit more than a "shared tape drive", it's
got a tape drive that they say handles up to 14MB (dunno why some other
drives can seemingly stuff so much more into the same form factor tapes)
and also a big old 8" HD, belt-driven yet.
Yea, I've got one too. had a crashed hdd, and its tape drive needs some
work (was like that when Don sent it to me). A Z80, and I
think 128K of ram, which is probably what you also have in
that other unit as well. It's been a long time since I've run into any
of that stuff, and while I have the 816 and one of the cables to connect
a "workstation" to it, pretty long at that, I never did get any 801s or
similar. Is the 801 the one where the floppy drives are vertical and to
one side of the display monitor?
Nope. The TS-801 is a desktop machine with a pair of full-height floppies
that look like Apple Disk II units or the FH floppies in an IBM PC (or
PC/XT). I took a couple pictures and put them up here...
http://computer-refuge.org/compcollect/televideo/ts801 (and ts806c)
Note: the -s versions are low res versions of the non -s versions.