On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Joe wrote:
>
> > IIRC A couple of months ago somebody on this list said that the
> > Beehive terminals used 4040 CPUs. Can anyone confirm that? Yesterday I
> > spotted a pair of old two-tome brown Beehive terminals in a trash pile
> > and I was wondering if I should go back and pick them up.
>
> I have a huge monster of a Beehive terminal that was from the era of the
> 4040, so I can take a look inside and see. If I remember correctly, it
> had a big card cage inside with numerous boards.
>
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I used to have an older Beehive (70s vintage) terminal, it had an all aluminum
case and was all hardware, no processor, + MOS shift registers for display
mem. Maybe the newer ones use a uproc...
Peter Wallace
Received on Thu Mar 07 2002 - 11:48:24 GMT