Beehive DM5 and Teletype Model 43 terminals

[Tore Sinding Bekkedal]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 4 May 2009 at 20:40, Richard wrote:
>
>   
>>  Looks interesting, although I've never seen one in person.  An
>>  interesting feature is that it provides an escape sequence to
>>  download 8085 binary code directly into the terminal (as ASCII hex
>>  digit sequences).  I'm wondering what it would take to load a space
>>  invaders game into it :-).
>>     
>
> I don't think that was at all unusual.  When I did the mono terminal 
> for Fortune, they requested the feature so they could do QA on the 
> terminal without opening it up.  Wrote a bunch of diagnostics that 
> were downloaded as part of the manufacturing process.  Basically, an 
> Intel hex binary file with each record prefixed by an (undocumented) 
> escape sequence.  
>   
Yep, Tandberg TDV-2100 and TDV-2200 terminals did this, also. Never got 
the diags to work, though, for some reason.

-Tore :)