On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
It seems to me that the 802 was a televideo terminal
with an integrated
workstation. These worked in conjunction with a server unit to run an OS
called MOST, I believe, and I have a couple of the server units, the number
of which will occur to me when I look at one again.
The TS 802 was a dual 5.25" floppy desktop computer with separate
keyboard. It ran CP/M or TurboDOS as a standalone, or could be used as a
sattelite user station in conjunction with a server running MMMOST or
TurboDOS. The server was frequently the TS 806. There was also a TS 802H
that was equipped with a 10mb hard disk and only a single floppy drive.
- don
These were fairly late technology, using 64k DRAMS and
a 4MHz Z80A. The
servers had four or five serial ports using Z80 SIO's and either 10 or 20
MB winchesters to go with their 5-1/4" floppies. They used the
WD1000-series HDC, which used an 8X300 microcontroller (I2L technology,
Harvard architecture) and the WD1000 5-chip set. I always admired the
packaging technology, which was first rate.
I have to believe the workstations were up to the same standard in
convenient packaging. Televideo was late getting into the desktop
workstation market, but did it in a big way with these numbers, as they had
all you could want. The OS was purported, by some users I knew, to be
quite a bit superior to MPM, which was quite established at that time (late
'70's, early '80's).
If anyone is interested in the server units, I can make them available,
less drives, and possibly a couple of SIO/2's which I scavenged years ago,
for the packaging/shipping cost.
Dick
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From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Televideo 802 computer?
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 2:35 AM
Does anyone have one of these? I found a manual for one of these
yesterday
and it looks pretty cool.
Joe