Who was the manufacturer of the Cable Data Terms, and what was the model # ? I would love to find one. Can you provide any system details about the unit such as as onboard RAM/ROM, IO etc ? Date of Manufacture ?
CableData was a firm which provided billing (hardware & software) solutions to ...
If you can get your hands on a Digital Multimeter with built in logic probe, or even a logic probe by itself, you should be able to check for system clock and activity on address and data bus of 6502.
I really wish I had a good scope (mine was built in 1956 and only has bandwidth to 60khz). However ...
In one of the old Micro6502 or 6502 User Notes newsletters there was reference to a "recently released" application note for the 6545 CRT controller chip.
I have not been able to find a scan of this online anywhere.