What happened to <PA4> and <PA5>?
I could not adjust my eyes to those red plasma terminals. We had some
here until last November when they decided we had to say good-bye to
them.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:58 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT
Per your comment on the 3279: Did you ever use any of the
original 3279 terminals with the "chicklet" keyboards? We had serial
numbers 6, 10 and 12, and the keyboards were horrible; there was ample
space between the keys (both vertically and horizontally) for you to be
able to miss a key entirely. The intent was to allow overlays to be put
over the keyboard describing additional functions and / or layouts, but
it was abysmal to type on.
I've seen them, but managed to avoid having to use one. The mod
2 and 3 (particularly the 3G) 3279s are what I consider to be perfect.
We also had some of the 3290 terminals, with the 160 column
screens, which could be split into four 80 column virtual screens. These
were great, other than coming only in orange. We had them as Operator
consoles, allowing them to monitor four screens at a time, and blow up
one screen when something deemed important was going on there.
Still have one...8-) I need to find the microcode support for
it for my last functioning 3174, though.
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