Keywords are not false advertising - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Dec 1998

I believe that the 1602A is either a UART or a keyboard encoder.

Early terminals were built in one of two ways, either hard wired pure discreet TTL logic
(such as the ADM-3) or as microprocessor based terminals, often with an 8008.  Using a uP
was much more expensive and was usually done only in very high end ASCII terminals or
(almost always) in 3270 type terminals (connected to IBM mainframes via a coax cable
interface).

Barry Watzman

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From:  Sam Ismail [SMTP:dastar@ncal.verio.com]
Sent:  Monday, December 14, 1998 10:12 AM
To:  Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject:  Re: Keywords are not false advertising

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

...
   I'm
looking at the manual for this thing.  It was a pretty righteous
 terminal in its day.  Maximum transmission rate is 9600 baud.  It had a
 video out so you could hook up an external monitor.  According to the
 schematic, the biggest chip on the I/O board is a TR1402A or 1602A (it has
 both numbers written on it).  I have no idea what this is.  But there's no
 8008 in there.  I think I checked it out when I first got it, and you
 would've tried to get more than $10 out of me if it did I'm sure. ;)  
 There are several terminals made by Beehive. Mine must be a later one - 
 it has an 8008 in it (I am not sure what the UART is), a separate 
 keyboard, but no joystick. Its main claim to fame is that it has a Hebrew 
 character set in it as well as the normal one. 
The one I have is circa 1974.

Sellam                                    Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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