Battery warning in Falco terminals

Brent Hilpert bhilpert at shaw.ca
Tue Nov 20 13:28:19 CST 2018


On 2018-Nov-20, at 1:21 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
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> From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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> Subject: Battery warning in Falco terminals
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>> Also, I suspect the first generation of terminals all have similar hardware with different
>> firmware, so if someone has any of the other models (TS-1, etc.) we could get them simulated
>> pretty easily once the firmware is dumped.
>> 
> -----------------------------
> Don't forget the three PROMs ;-)
> 
> There were at least 2 models of the TS-1; the TS-1SP added paging & scrollback among other features, and there was also the similar TS-100.
> 
> Their magnetic core & transformer keyboard technology always intrigued me; very reliable & spillproof but I never saw it used anywhere else.



Were there 3 PROMs on the TS-1? I don't remember (and unfortunately didn't dump them, unless you're including the character generator amongst the 3).
They were probably soldered in and I was probably thinking mainly about eraseable chips and did the CG as well as it (would have been) socketed.
If they were small PROMs, they were perhaps I/O and memory address decoding.



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