24 Dec
2001
24 Dec
'01
3:27 a.m.
In a message dated 12/24/01 9:16:01 AM Pacific Standard Time,
pat(a)purdueriots.com writes:
IIRC, you could actaully download software from a
Televideo Z80 CP/M
computer onto those terminals and it would execute on the terminal (like a
diskless box). However I could be thinking of a different Televideo
terminal. My dad (an optometerist) had a few of those with the Televideo
system for a database system, and when the computer went down, the
terminals got sold off to another business still using the same system. :(
I'd love to get my hands on one of those old beasts. If I'm really lucky
I still have the manual for those terminals... though after my parents
moved I'm not too hopeful.
That one is the Televideo 800 IIRC. It looks identical to the 950 but with
different electronics. Downloaded the operating system from a multiuser box.
I had several of them. I think I still have one of the Televideo 800
terminals in my storage locker.
Paxton
Astoria, OR