Once upon a school Christmas holiday my father brought home a Televideo TS-806 [1] and a terminal. The thing contained a load of documents which they'd like to

Once upon a school Christmas holiday my father brought home a Televideo TS-806 [1] and a terminal. The thing contained a load of documents which they'd like to have on their snazzy new server, but nobody could find out how to copy them. The files were in some alien format, produced by a text processor native to the TS-806. I resolved this by hooking up the thing to a Bondwell 12 [2] through RS-232, printing the documents on the Televideo and receiving them in PIP [3] on the Bondwell. The (single-sided) Bondwell floppies could be read on one of the machines connected to the new server and the problem was solved. I considered this quite a feat at the age of 16... [1] https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_televideo2anceManualMay83_10541067/2162200B_TS806_Maintenance_Manual_May83#page/n7/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_televideo2anceManualMay... [2] http://www.z80.eu/bondwell.html http://www.z80.eu/bondwell.html [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program