10 Mar
1998
10 Mar
'98
1:11 p.m.
At 01:27 PM 3/10/98, you wrote:
This morning I went to a trift store and found an
IBM PC that said
"Personal Computer 3270". How rare are these? I've never seen one before.
I have seen AT 3270s but not a PC. This one had a full height hard drive
with IBM logo on it and a full height 5 1/4" floppy drive with IBM's logo.
It had model 5271 marked on the back.
Whatever you do, don't throw the 3270 adapters, keyboard adapters or APA
cards (the card that bridges to the display adapter) away. Those are hard
to come by, and we get calls for them on a regular basis.
Also a few weeks ago I saw an IBM AT that was marked "Personnal Computer
AT Store Controller". What is it for? I've never heard of one. The owner
said that he had already "modified it" to make it a regular computer.
Yup, that's a POS box. I think the Albertson's grocery chain here in
Oklahoma still use them. At the stroke of midnight every day, all their
registers go offline for about 15 minutes and the managers and cashiers
scream back and forth at each other. That's the first sign that IBMs are in
use.
Joe
Thank you,
David Wollmann
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
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