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 <[email protected]> on behalf of Jay Maynard <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 27 July 2023 at 17:10 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Subject: Re: [EXT] Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!" - and the executive was sold on the idea. > Colin > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 15:26, billogden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 company (in a very different cultural environment) and we rather > > quickly started production use, initially to simply display customer > data. > > > > Some early mistakes: The IBM marketing people were very much unfamiliar > > with > > display terminals and thought that 3270-1 was a good start. I managed to > > change that immediately! (Who remembers the 3270-1?). > > > > We (myself (as an IBM SE) and the customer (both technical and > management)) > > were very happy with how quickly the system became useful. IIRC (which is > > more difficult at my age) we were the first "real" virtual memory > customer > > in that part of the world. We had about a dozen terminals on the system > and > > had no response problems with the terminals or with batch jobs. CICS, at > > least in those days, seemed very efficient. > > > > Being young and stupid, I liked VS1. > > > > Bill Ogden > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless otherwise stated above: IBM United Kingdom Limited Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hants. PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
