8 Nov
2005
8 Nov
'05
3:20 p.m.
On 11/8/2005 at 7:36 AM Allison wrote:
NEC and DEC but never Datapoint.
Darn--I've wondered about a design link between Datapoint and Beehive
terminals. The Beehive design resembled the Datapoint more than
trivially--it used no static ram, but rather dynamic shift registers as
screen and working memory for the 8008. Since that was a pretty formidable
design for its time, I wondered if Beehive had recruited Datapoint talent
to do it, since DP would have had the best knowledge of the wiorkings of
the 8008.
Cheers,
Chuck