Ferroresonant transformers and 3278

That is easy, it is fairly common here. I know of a friend who has some. Enviado do meu Tele-Movel Em 22/12/2015 09:51, "Mike Ross" <tmfdmike at gmail.com> escreveu: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Santo Nucifora > <santo.nucifora at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> > wrote: > > > >> On 2015-Dec-22, at 2:28 AM, drlegendre . wrote: > >> > Ah, a terminal it is! Thank you. > >> > > >> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:30 PM, William Donzelli < > wdonzelli at gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> >>> Sincere query.. as the goog turns up nothing meaningful.. > >> >> > >> >> Try IBM 3278. > >> >> > >> >> Hint: one of those popular terminal families in the world. > >> > > > > Sadly, not as plentiful these days as vintage terminals. I've been on > the > > lookout for one for the last couple of years just to add to my > collection. > > Seems that keyboard collectors like the keyboards too because those I > have > > found but not for sale lately. > > They do seem rather thin on the ground. I picked mine up... 15 years > ago now and they weren't that common then. And I had a *hell* of a > time finding a 3279 - the colour version - even then. > > Do we have any South American correspondents listening in? I'm sure I > read that IBM had a factory in Brazil producing these - and they kept > on churning 3278s out for some considerable time after the rest of the > world had moved on. I believe it was also stated that there was > considerable redesign using more modern components inside that classic > 3278 case on these later Brazilian examples. I'd certainly like to get > hold of a couple. > > Mike >