Gerhard, Yes, indeed, the 2250 was a large and expensive device which - as I vaguely recall - was designed for use in research establishments which - to be provocative - probably lived off federal grants, establishments where describing their computer with the prefix "super" would not be inappropriate.
However - unless an inventive senility has taken over - I have mental pictures of a machine room in a development laboratory in the area of San Jose, CA, where I noticed with great interest the use of this large and expensive display device as a console. I was particularly taken by the way the characters were rendered. There was a distinct impression that they were drawn rather than being of fixed shape. I was going to say rendered by "software" rather than "hardware" - but where do you draw the line? - if you'll excuse the pun. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Postpischil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 12 December, 2005 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Modify command - lower case command text possible or not? > Chris Mason wrote: > > Shmuel, > > However, the reason I'm posting is that I believe the model number of the > > display operator console which I marveled at first as late as 1980 was 2250 > > and not 2260. > > The 2250 was a huge, expensive device, that almost certainly was not > used as a console. But then I don't recall using 2260s as consoles, either. > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, VT > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
