On Tuesday 18 July 2006 01:11, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Monday 17 July 2006 11:09, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Monday 17 July 2006 02:06 am, Patrick Finnegan
wrote:
> Actually, I might pull the rom, and dump it while I'm at work
> tomorrow... I'm tempted to power one of the TS-801's up and just
> see what comes out the "terminal" port.
Turns out the power supply seems to be ok, and the "terminal" port is
wired as a DCE DB-25S at 9600 baud (8/n/1). The machine spits a
message out of its "terminal" port when it tries to boot, so
disassembling the EPROM should give me enough info to write a BIOS
for CP/M if I need to... but I'd rather get some authentic software
if possible. I wouldn't mind playing with MMMOST even if it is a bit
strange...
Thanks to help from Jerry, I now have it booting. For the record, the
Televideo TS-801 does boot the same image as the TS-802 (the 802 is
probably just an 801 packaged in the same case as a Televideo
terminal).
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System IPL from Floppy disk in progress
TELEVIDEO SYSTEM TS-802 V2.1
62k CP/M vers. 2.2
A>dir
A: MOVCPM COM : ED COM : STAT COM : BIOS ASM
A: DUMP ASM : LT31 COM : PIP COM : ASM COM
A: D COM : CBIOS ASM : SYSGEN COM : EDFILE DOC
A: NSWP COM : SUBMIT COM : DDT COM : COPYDISK COM
A: DEBLOCK ASM : FORMAT COM : XSUB COM : LOAD COM
A: DUMP COM : EDFILE COM
A>
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Since this machine seems to be completely undocumented/unknown (on the
web anyhow), I guess it's time to write some...
Is there any chance that someone has some user or system documentation
for the TS-801 or TS-802 that they could make available to me somehow?
It'd be nice too if I could get a copy of whatever software Televideo
usually shipped with these machines; my research shows that they had a
software suite called TeleSolutions, and some other things that they
shipped with the machines.
Also, a copy of MMMOST or one of their other multi-user O/S's might be
neat to play with...
Pat
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