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Any other Beehive owners out there?

legalize

legalize

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I was gifted a Beehive CP/M machine with some peripherals and a stack of disks. Beehive stuff was made locally (I'm in Salt Lake City), which is why it interested me. I haven't done anything with it yet, but wondered if there was anyone else with one of these.
 
I used to own a couple of Super Bee terminals; hulking slab-sided terminals, but well-constructed with a great keyboard. 8008-based with shift-register memory, IIRC. Had page-edit features, like several other terminals of the time.

After that, my only run-in with Beehive was with their VT-100-ish terminal in the early 80s. Okay, but nothing like the old Super Bees.
 
I used to have a Brilliant Bee back in the early 90's. I think it was very similar to the Super Bee and yes, the keyboard was fantastic. I'd absolutely love to find another.
 
The two .TD0 Images I found with Google were:
BEEV10.TD0
BEEV13.TD0

and have the following Directories:
BEEV10.RAW
Code: 
cpmls -f bee1 -D BEEV10.RAW
     Name    Bytes   Recs  Attr     update             create
------------ ------ ------ ---- -----------------  -----------------
ASM     .COM     8K     64    
AUTOLOAD.COM     2K      3    
BIOS    .ASM    12K     96    
CP      .COM    12K     95    
DDT     .COM     6K     38    
DOWNLOAD.COM    20K    150    
DUMP    .ASM     6K     33    
DUMP    .COM     2K      4    
ED      .COM     8K     52    
EDIT    .COM    28K    217    
FORM1   .        2K     14    
FORM2   .        2K     15    
FORMAT  .COM     4K     25    
LOAD    .COM     2K     14    
LOADKEYS.COM    12K     96    
MOVCPM  .COM    16K    124    
PIP     .COM     8K     58    
PRINT   .COM    16K    114    
READ    .COM    18K    138    
READIT  .COM    10K     67    
README  .        4K     29    
SAVEKEYS.COM    14K     99    
SETDS180.COM     8K     64    
SETMODE .COM     2K      5    
STAT    .COM     6K     41    
SUBMIT  .COM     2K     10    
SYSGEN  .COM     2K      7    
TC4001  .COM     2K      7    
UPLOAD  .COM    18K    135    
WRITE   .COM    14K    109    
XSUB    .COM     2K      6    
   31 Files occupying    268K,     118K Free.

BEEV13.RAW:
Code: 
cpmls -f bee1 -D BEEV13.RAW
     Name    Bytes   Recs  Attr     update             create
------------ ------ ------ ---- -----------------  -----------------
CATCHUM .COM    30K    229    
CATCHUM .DAT     2K      5    
CHESS   .COM    26K    204    
CHESS   .DOC     2K     11    
D       .COM     4K     24    
FORMAT  .COM     4K     25    
LOAD    .COM     2K     14    
MAILMRGE.OVR     8K     60    
PIP     .COM     8K     58    
PRINT   .COM    16K    114    
SPELSTAR.DCT    98K    775    
SPELSTAR.OVR    18K    144    
STAT    .COM     6K     41    
SYSGEN  .COM     2K      7    
WS      .COM    16K    124    
WSMSGS  .OVR    28K    218    
WSOVLY1 .OVR    34K    266    
   17 Files occupying    304K,      82K Free.

I used the bee1 cpmtools definition:
Code: 
# BEE1  Beehive - DSDD 48 tpi 5.25" - 512 x 10
diskdef bee1
  seclen 512
  tracks 80
  sectrk 10
  blocksize 2048
  maxdir 128
  skew 1
  boottrk 2
  os 2.2
end

# libdsk data below
[bee1]
description = BEE1  Beehive - DSDD 48 tpi 5.25" - 512 x 10
sides = alt
cylinders = 80
heads = 2
secsize = 512
sectors = 10
secbase = 1
datarate = DD

Larry
 
Chuck,
Yes, If you would happen to have some Bootable Images, and send them to me it would be appreciated.
I'll send them on to legalize.

Thanks.

Larry
 
Apparently there was another computer named the "MicroBee". This computer was made by Applied Technologies, not by the company named Beehive that made the computer I was given. (They started as Beehive Medical Electronics and then became Beehive International.)

So just to clarify, I'm not talking about the MicroBee from Applied Technologies.
 
legalize said:
Apparently there was another computer named the "MicroBee". This computer was made by Applied Technologies, not by the company named Beehive that made the computer I was given. (They started as Beehive Medical Electronics and then became Beehive International.)

So just to clarify, I'm not talking about the MicroBee from Applied Technologies.
Click to expand...

True, and interestingly to add to the confusion Beehive also produced a terminal called the MicroBee.
 
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