Shmuel Perhaps my memory is failing me in my dotage so I tried Googling. I found many references to the 2260 being monochrome but no author had the wit to mention what the "chrome" might be.
I did receive conformation that the 2260 is closely related to the 2250 which appears to have come first, 2250: 1964, 2260: 1965. I actually saw a 2250-like display being used as a system console at the IBM Santa Teresa labs. I'm pretty sure the characters were orange - and were somewhat distorted because - I believe I recall - they had to be rendered from short straight lines. I thought I'd hit the jackpot with the page referenced below. I saw colour pictures emerge on the right but the 2260 only shows a black and white image. The text claims that the 2260 was white on black - which I know is wrong! http://www.smartcomputing.com/articles/2003/s1401/36s01/36s01.pdf?guid=#search=%22%22IBM%202260%20display%22%22 Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 29 August, 2006 4:29 PM Subject: Re: >27x132? > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/29/2006 > at 06:46 AM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >What colour were the characters? If they were green I expect it was a > >3277 Model 1. If they were orange it was a 2260. > > My recollection is that the 2260 and every monochrome 3270 before the > 3290 was green. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
