Date   : Tue, 23 Jul 1991 04:38:28 GMT
From   : agate!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!loligo!swanson@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bob Swanson)
Subject: Re: Televideo CP/M system?

In article <CMM.0.90.2.680031965.ephillip@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ephillip@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
(Earl W Phillips) writes:
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>says televideo all over it; the screen and the cpu. When I try to
>fire it up, all it does it give me rows and rows of dots. Does anyone

I am pretty sure you have snagged one of the "network" stations from an
old TeleVideo system.  The dots you see are the machine waiting for the
network to respond via the RS422 port.  Someplace inside the machine is
a switch you can throw to defeat this portion of the BIOS, and force the
machine to run standalone.  I used a system like this about 10 years ago,
right before IBM announced the PC.  I don't have any of the docs, so I 
can't even begin to suggest which switch to play with.  I think I DO have
some of the original 5.25 disks around here someplace.  I'll see if there's
any documentation on them.  I think the OS was called MMMOST, or something
like that.  It was basically CP/M, made "easy" for idiots.