Beehive Topper (was: laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?)

[der Mouse]

> Toward the end of their corprorate life, Beehive was open to doing
> lots of bizarre things, including loading their own terminals with
> custom firmware and rebadging them.

Reminds me of something I did with a TeleVideo 955 once.  Turns out
that model has a custom-firmware ROM socket, with an escape sequence in
the stock firmware to execute it.  I disassembled enough of the various
pieces to work out much of the interface to the hardware, and wrote a
small video game to run in the custom firmware ROM as a
proof-of-concept exercise.  This promptly started a friend asking me
when I would release NetBSD/tvi955....

(Yes, he was joking.  The tvi955 is far too computron-poor to run
anything even vaguely like a Unix variant.  A few KB of RAM at most,
and a G65SC802 - a slightly improved 6502 - as CPU...only way I can
think of to do it would be to run an emulator for something beefier,
with remote storage accessed via serial line.  Never mind "run", never
mind even "walk"; "crawl" would be too fast a word for it.)

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