8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Dave McGuire]

On Sep 7, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> Unfortunately instead of RS232 Televideo has something else going  
> there
> (RS422?),  not easy to interface too,  and they distribute their  
> "network"
> out amongst what other Televideo boxes you have,  which in my case  
> is none.
> I guess with an S-100-based system you could always add more  
> cards,  and
> somehow or other make it work.

   They were RS422 if memory serves.  I worked at a computer store  
when I was in high school, from 1984 to 1986...we used one of those  
Televideo distributed CP/M-ish systems (810?) there, for store  
operations/POS/inventory stuff.  It worked very well and was  
reliable, but it wasn't very fast.  Our POS and inventory system was  
written in CBASIC-80.  It was good stuff.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007