TeleVideo 803 Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1983
name: label: maker
content: Televideo
notes: label: Description
content: This object number covers the processor and monitor of a TeleVideo-803 microcomputer (serial 83061441E). The Televido-803 was an update of the TeleVideo-802. The new design had an innovative "all-in-one" case. The main processor unit and mass storage devices were mounted vertically at the right side of a large tilting 14" green display (at the time the standard size was of 12").
label: Description
content: The keyboard was also greatly improved. It offered sixteen programmable function keys and ten pre-programmed text-editing keys. It was one of the first keyboards to offer a built-in wrist rest. The TS-803 was also one of the rare CP/M machines to run graphics.
label: Description
content: TeleVideo had started in the computer business in 1982, by selling passive video terminals that connected to mainframe or minicomputers. Their major competitor was Digital Equipment Corporation and its VT100 terminal, which became the reference model and was later on copied by several companies.
label: Description
content: 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.
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 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 (word processor) and CalcStar (agenda / spreadsheet).
label: Description
content: For related documentation and software, see 1992.3194.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Martin Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0535.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0535.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0535
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in x 15 in; 36.83 cm x 46.99 cm x 38.1 cm