29 Dec
2005
29 Dec
'05
8:35 p.m.
In article <200512291854250435.16ABE996 at 10.0.0.252>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
On 12/29/2005 at 7:28 PM Richard wrote:
Any chance you have pictures of them? I haven't even been able to
find any pictures of some of the models we used at UDel.
They apparently were crappy designs and tended to
die fairly readily,
making them hard to find. They were manufactured in Salt Lake, but I
haven't seen one since I used them in Delaware around 1980!
I used to have a couple of early-to-mid 1970's era Beehive terminals. Quality of construction was actually pretty
high--wonderful keyboard.
8008-based "smart" editing terminals.
Maybe I was being a little harsh :-) ... a colleague mentioned
something like the capacitors always dying and needing to be replaced.
I can't recall the specifics. I do recall that when the terminal room
heated up in the summer time, the character memory RAM would start
flipping bits randomly causing your screen to corrupt over an editing
session. We all learned quickly how to rapidly execute the key
sequence that would i) take the terminal into local mode, ii) clear
the screen, iii) bring the terminal back online and iv) issue a
command to the editor to refresh the buffer.
Beehive had several terminal models. I didn't
care for the later
VT-100/VT-220 compatible boxes; IIRC, they were pretty buggy.
The ones we used would have been around 1978-1980 and they were most
definately not VT-anything compatible. I remember the detachable
keyboard on one of the models had a cable that seemed as thick as a
DEC RL01 disk drive cable or 5-line keyset phone cable of the period,
although much more flexible than either of those :-).
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