9 Feb
2016
9 Feb
'16
9:26 a.m.
On Feb 9, 2016, at 1:23 AM, Kevin Bowling
<kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote:
I'm looking for an IBM 3290 to complement my z800 mainframe and third party
3174-22L establishment controller. I can't imagine these were particularly
rare, but am sure many of them have been destroyed in the waning years
since it takes special equipment/know how/desire to even use. Any leads on
on for a reasonable price?
If you want ?real? terminals to hook up to it (yea, I know IBM 3290?s are cool)
the easiest terminals to find are the IBM 3178/3179. Usually you?ll be able to
get the display and then have to hunt a keyboard (but it?s the IBM standard
keyboard with the 5-pin DIN connector?any of those should work). Folks have
(unfortunately) figured out that they can get more for the keyboard than the
terminal.
TTFN - Guy