Tony,
At 01:24 AM 5/19/00 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday I picked up one of my more unusual finds, a Beehive MicroB
>> terminal that looks like it's new in the box. See pictures at
>> "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/beehive/b4.jpg" through
>> "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/beehive/b9.jpg". You can see in
>> picture b7 that it was still sealed up in a plastic bag inside the box.
>>
>> Does anyone want this? I don't need it and I don't have room to keep
>> it. I powered it up today and it appears to work. You can see in the last
>> picture that it does have a raster and cursor. I don't have a systemn that
>> uses a terminal so I can't test it beyond that. The screen is normal but
>
>Don't you still have that 11/73 you were asking about last week. That
>could use this as a terminal, surely.
Yes, but it's over at someone else house at the moment.
>
>And are you saying that you don't have _any_ other machine with an RS232
>port? Surely you have _something_ that can send and receive characters?
Of course I do. I can alway use the over abundant PCs. But I don't want
to take the time to figure out the port pinouts and make a cable.
>
>And 95% of all terminals only need the data leads on the RS232 connector
>(there may be a setup option for this). In which case shorting pin 2 to
>pin 3 on the RS232 connector will do a loopback test --
I thought about that but I ran out of time and had to put it away for
the evening. Wouldn't you have to jumper the handshaking signals too? I
don't know which of them this terminal requires. I didn't get a manual for
it. :-(
anything you type
>on the keyboard should appear on the screen. That doesn't test
>_everything_ (for example the baud rate could be wildly off, but if it
>uses the same rate for Tx and Rx, this test would pass), but it will
>check much of the terminal logic.
Joe
Received on Fri May 19 2000 - 08:49:16 BST
