On 10 Jan 2007 at 15:38, Fred Cisin wrote:
I have many hundreds of "alien" diskettes
that were to go to him when I
blue-screen. Now I don't know who to will them to.
Same here--probably nobody. My collection's a little unusual in that
it has a lot of embedded systems diskettes in it, for everything from
a CNC EDM machine, to embroidery machines to electron microscopes to
a cardiac monitor. Interesting, but who needs this kind of stuff
anymore?
I have never seen the machine either, but I have seen
floppies from it.
I don't know whether that was made by Beehive, or was an aftermarket
add-on to convert a terminal into a computer.
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. I think that what portion of the
terminal market the PC didn't destroy, Wyse probably got the lion's
share of. I recall that the Wyse 50 was about as cheap as a terminal
could get.
Cheers,
Chuck