Chuck Guzis wrote:
It's been awhile since I owned a couple of
SuperBees, but they used
welded-aluminum slab-sided cases and not the fiberglass one shown in
the photo. The whole front CRT area was covered with a sheet of
brown-tinted acrylic, held on with velcro-ish plastic fasteners. The
keyboard itself was parallel output ASCII and had two shades of beige
for most keys with yellow special-function keys. Several keys had
little round "windows" illuminated by bi-pin lamps. The keyboard
case could have been aluminum, but might also have been die-cast zinc-
-I don't recall, except that it didn't have the sharp corners the
main unit did.
The SuperBees were page-editing terminals; you could shoot a page of
text to it, edit it offline and then hit TRANSMIT to send the text
back to the host. It was also possible to get the terminal into a
state where you needed to cycle the power to get it out of some
unresponsive condition. When transmitting a page, 1F (hex) was used
as an EOL character.
CPU in these was an 8008 with shift-register storage.
Cheers,
Chuck
That describes the terminal I have to a T. Aluminum casing, brown
acrylic front, and 8008 CPU. Mine's dingy as heck on the outside but
amazingly clean inside. Someone's done some hackery to the PCB in an
attempt to consolidate several EPROMs into one, it looks like.
Thanks,
Josh