31 May
2010
31 May
'10
9:15 p.m.
At 1:58 PM +1000 6/1/10, Nigel Williams wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Brian Lanning
<brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
We had something similar that let us use them as terminals on a
Honeywell DPS-8 Mainframe. Though instead of a HD we had dual Iomega
(I think that was the brand) cartridge drives).
They were much nicer to use than the *ANCIENT* Honeywell Terminals we had.
Zane
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What's up with the badge? Wasn't the
3270 a mainframe terminal?
yes, and ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270_PC
Quote:
The IBM 3270 PC (model 5271), released in October 1983, was an IBM PC
XT containing additional hardware which could emulate the behaviour of
an IBM 3270 terminal. It could therefore be used both as a standalone
computer, and as a terminal to a mainframe.
IBM later released the 3270 AT (model 5281), which was a similar
design based on the IBM PC AT.