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Televideo TS-802	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1982	Z80-A	name company company_name specs tabs adverts comments oc_id source TS-802 /companies/televideo Televideo label value NAME TS-802 label value MANUFACTURER Televideo label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1982 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD Full_stroke 103 keys with 11 function keys & numeric keypad label value CPU Z80-A label value SPEED 4 Mhz. label value RAM 64 KB label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 80 columns x 25 lines label value GRAPHIC MODES None label value COLORS Monochrome label value SOUND Beeper label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS 2 x RS232, high speed port for Televideo expansion cards label value BUILT IN MEDIA Dual 5.25'' 500 KB F.D. drives or 10 MB hard disk label value OS CP/M label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit label value PRICE $3,495 (Dual F.D. version), $5,995 (H.D. version) adverts title subtitle text image U.S. ADVERT (1982) The memo from the company president: Your purchase request for six personal computers just reached my desk. What gives? I thought you understood our grouth plans, Jack, but the computers you have recommanded are dead ends. They might do the job today, but what about tomorrow? They don't connect together to form any kind of functional system. The 8 bits aren't compatible with the 16 bits models. And I doubt the software that run on the computers you want will be of any use later when we're forced to buy computers that work together. You saved us a little now, Jack, but your decision will cost us a bundle as we grow into the future. We are growing, Jack, and I'm sure that you want to be part of the growth. See me before you go home tonight.\ Tom Cheer up Jack! Now the advert: If you don't want your boss to limit you growth, don't limit the growth of the company. Consider small business computers that can keep up with your business by giving you options for expansion in the future.\ With Televideo Systems Inc. you get what no other small business computer can offer... Perhaps jack was right... null author date text FM (US) Saturday 24th December 2022 I do believe this computer features in Duran Duran''s 1983 video for "Is There Something I should Know" author date text Fred van Kempen (Indiana, US) Thursday 1st April 2021 @Richard Ratcliffe: Consider me interested! :P I used to (have to) work on/through one of those, many moons ago.. $Fred author date text Richard Ratcliffe (United States) Saturday 28th March 2020 I have at least two of these TeleVideo TS 806. There are floppy disk and some other docs available. If you have any interest in them you can contact me. I also have CP/M disk and manuals and Dos stuff. One or two boxes of 8" and 6" floppies as well. R author date text Franklin Couto (Brasil) Thursday 20th June 2019 Steven, have a god day for you man.\ So, i work in a factory end inside we make those computers.\ I fixed a lot off end a liked so much.\ HD 10MB ou 15MB, 64kb memory, 360k floppy, etc\ Sorry about my english.\ By man. author date text Steven Saturday 4th August 2018 I believe the TeleVideo TS-806/TS-816 actually used RS-422 interfaces to the terminals (~2Mbps). These were sweet machines so long as a rogue client didn''t lock the network... and the ''server'' had a very high parts count and it was ALL critical for proper operation. author date text Jacob Mitchell (USA ) Saturday 25th April 2015 I just found one of these all software in the original box and styrofoam and in VERY good condition with the original dox matrix printer all manuals and alot of floppys.... author date text EDDY SZCZERBINSKI (Canada) Monday 18th November 2013 I own one of these computers. I am looking for software to make it work ! Please contact me if you have any. Thank you very much. author date text Mart (United Kingdom) Tuesday 4th December 2012 Dumb terminals retrofitted with on-board connectionless functionality… Isn’t this sort of what’s happening to Google Chrome OS now? 610 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230608081336/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=610 2023-06-08

In 1982, Télévidéo was one of the first companies selling passive video terminals. These devices were used as monitors/keyboards for mainframes. Their major competitor was Digital and its VT100 terminal, which became the reference model and was later on copied by several companies.

The same year, Digital and Televideo had the same idea: to convert their video terminal into a business computer. The digital solution was called the VT-180. Televideo offered their solution under the name TS-802.

The TS-802 was a traditional Z80 and CP/M based system. There were two versions: one equiped with double 5.25'' disk drives, and another with a 10 MB hard disk (TS-802H). Like all CP/M systems manufacturers of the time, Televideo offered a free software suite called TeleSolutions. It included the two MicroPro editor bestsellers: WordStar (wordprocessor) and CalcStar (agenda/spreadsheet).

Initially, these computers were used by large companies as single user, stand alone systems. Then, they were connected to multitasking mainframe units (Televideo TS-806 or TS-816 for example) and used for many years as intelligent satellite stations.

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First LAN, by Jim:
Back in 1983, Los Alamos National Laboratory's first Local Area Network was created. It used 1 TS-800A terminal, 7 TS-802 computers and 1 TS-816 Service Processor.