Hi
The Beehive was one of the best terminals I'd ever used.
The one that Intel used ( and painted Intel blue ), used
Cherry Hall effect switches for the keyboards. I only saw
one of these switches go bad and that was because the
keyboard had a heavy object dropped on it ( drive box ).
It broke the ceramic that the Hall effect device was on.
This keyboard had the best feel of any keyboard that
I'd used before or since( around '80 ).
How may out there have problems with other mechanical
keyboards ( I know I have a few flaky ones ) and wish
they'd used the robust Hall effect keys?
Dwight
>From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
>Dan,
>
> I found a NIB Beehive terminal a couple of years ago and I couldn't even
give it away. I finally tossed it in the trash.
>
> Joe
>
>At 06:51 PM 11/30/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>While looking for old floppy disks I came across a couple
>>of manuals:
>>
>>Reference Manual for Beehive Terminals, Models I, II and III (1972)
>>
>>and
>>
>>Operator Manual OCLC Model 100 Computer Terminal (1974)
>>
>>If anyone needs any information from either of these manuals,
>>drop me a line off-list.
>>
>>I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who might have
>>a Beehive terminal, since they look pretty interesting (if you
>>have an interest in old computer terminals, as I do).
>>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Dan
>>http://www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html
>>
>>
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Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 18:30:01 GMT