I think we had two 3279-3B’s in our branch. The rest were 3278’s.
Recall IBM had gone to PROFS-based email at that point (mid 1980’s) so
terminals were something everybody in the branch needed.
Cheers, Martin
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jay
Maynard
Date: Thursday, 27
When I got into systems work in 1982, I was at an engineering shop. All of
the terminals were 3278-2s aside from a few leftover 3277-2s. There was
exactly one 3279-S3G, in the general manager's office so he could do GDDM
charts.
On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:02 AM Colin Paice wrote:
> In the days
In the days when 3270-2 was the best available, and 3279s with colour were
just announced, a team from a bank came round to see these new machines.
One of the executives asked "why do we need colour?" The reply from a
quick thinking developer was "so you can display overdrawn accounts in
red!" -
? By the time the 370/148 came out 3270s were old hat.
3270-1? Did you mean 3277-1? I never saw one in the flesh, and it was way to
small.
OS/VS1 did have some things that MVS did not
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM
Long ago and far away I helped an IBM customer set up his new 148 VS1
machine to use CICS. At that time it had the macro interface, but as an
assembly programmer that was good for me. 3270s were very new at the time
and controlling the screen appearance was important. The customer was an
Electric
