Date   : Wed, 24 Jul 1991 07:37:59 GMT
From   : mcsun!hp4nl!gufalet.let.rug.nl!rug4!laverman@uunet.uu.net (Bert Laverman)
Subject: Re: Televideo update

ephillip@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Earl W Phillips) writes:
>I have an update on my plea for Televideo info:
>
>It seems that the machine is a model 800 (?) for on the keyboard, it
>says "TS-800A". I've heard that it is not booting up cause it's waiting
>for a "server" ? As I have no idea this is, could someone please fill
>me in? Also, as I obviously don't have this "server", is the rest junk?
>Or, is there some way to hook it up to yet another CP/M running machine?
>On back of this Televideo, it has 6 connections, marked User 1 through 6
>which I took to mean that this may be an MP/M system? What the heck is
>this beastie?          HELP?!??!?!?!?!?!??!
>Thanx in advance for ANY info; boy, I'm really lost now! :)
Hey, this is amazing!! The 800 really IS a diskless mmmost client! At
least, I haven't seen any with another way of running. It wants the
server to send over the CP/M image.
  However, I'm starting to get confused about your description. Not
the 800, but the 806 SERVER has 6 connections on its back!, and didn't
you mention an empty spot where a harddisk could have been. Could it
be you have BOTH an 806 AND an 800, and didn't know BOTH have a Z80?
The 800 looks remarkably like a Tvi-950 terminal, and it is VERY easy
to mistake it for a dumb terminal!

P.S. if this is the case, you'ld better find an 806 WITH a harddisk
before you can do something with it. Earlyer version had a a small
HD (10 MB unformatted, about 7.5MB usable space), later versions
sported a slim-line TEAC floppy drive, and still later versions
had a 20MB HD.

Greetings, Bert
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  Bert Laverman,  Dept. of Computing Science, Groningen University
  laverman@cs.rug.nl                   bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org