Televideo-802H Microcomputer
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
label: Date made
content: 1982
name: label: maker
content: Televideo
notes: label: Description
content: Televideo introduced passive video terminals in 1982. These devices were used as monitors/keyboards for mainframe computers. Their major competitor was Digital Electronics Corporation (DEC) with its VT100 terminal, which was later on copied by several companies.
label: Description
content: The same year, DEC and Televideo had the same idea: to convert a video terminal into a business computer. DEC called its product the VT-180. Televideo offered its solution under the name TS-802.
label: Description
content: 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 this one with a 10 MB hard disk (TS-802H). Like other CP/M systems manufacturers of the time, Televideo offered a free software suite. Called TeleSolutions, it included the two MicroPro editor bestsellers: WordStar (a word processor) and CalcStar (an agenda / spreadsheet program).
label: Description
content: For the keyboard for the machine, see 2005.0253.02. For related documentation and software, see 1994.3017.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marion Williams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0253.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0253.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0253
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 22 in x 14 1/2 in; 34.29 cm x 55.88 cm x 36.83 cm