9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
2:04 p.m.
On 9 Dec 2007 at 11:11, Chris Kennedy wrote:
They did indeed. In an era of model 33s the boxy 2000
with the equally
boxy detached keyboard was Really Very Cool. I seem to recall that one
had to be careful about power cycling them too quickly as they'd eat
HOTs if you did.
The Beehives were the same slab-sided boxes. Sheet aluminum welded
with little gussets every so often. The front was just a piece of
tinted plexiglas attached with a variation of a velcro fastener.
Shift register storage with an 8008 running affairs.
I suspect that some of the old WPs used similar terminals. I recall
that the CPT 8000 used a setup like that--load the terminal memory
with text from a floppy, edit it offline, then send the page back to
the disk.
Cheers,
Chuck