In article <200701110254.VAA09399 at Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>,
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:
Toward the end
of their corprorate life, Beehive was open to doing
lots of bizarre things, including loading their own terminals with
custom firmware and rebadging them.
Reminds me of something I did with a TeleVideo 955 once. Turns out
that model has a custom-firmware ROM socket, with an escape sequence in
the stock firmware to execute it. I disassembled enough of the various
pieces to work out much of the interface to the hardware, and wrote a
small video game to run in the custom firmware ROM as a
proof-of-concept exercise. [...]
What an awesome hardware hack for a terminal!
Do you still have it?!?
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