Don't remember the manufacturer, I want the actual 3270 keyboard with the USB connect.
Sent from Proton Mail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Jul 4, 2023, 3:53 PM, billogden wrote: > Interesting discussion on screen sizes, keyboards, etc. Many of us have > various different opinions. My opinions have changed since the early days > when some of us (the "older" ones) used 2260s instead of 3270s. I am using a > 21" screen at the moment, with three "windows" open on it. I would not want a > larger screen and perhaps would prefer a slightly smaller one. I prefer a > size that does not require me to constantly move my head to focus on > different parts of the screen. For 3270 emulation I prefer 133 character > width (and most of us probably agree on that) and at least 50 lines high (and > this could vary somewhat). I find 17" laptop screens OK, but not great. More > important for me (because I work mostly with text) is having good character > resolution. Perhaps because I as not as young as I was a few years ago, I > find long periods with crudely-formed characters to be more exhausting. Given > a choice, I would say this is more important than the actual screen size. I > am not fond of laptop keyboards --- IMO they range from barely OK to poor. At > the moment I am using an old PC AT keyboard (with the "round" adapter plug > going to a converter to connect it to a USB port). It has the numeric keypad > (which I do not use) and has good "movement" of the keys that provides a > positive feedback for an old guy like me. (The "real" 3270 terminals had > great keyboards!) I can deal with the red "mouse control" on IBM-designed > laptop keyboards when needed, but I prefer a "real" mouse (with the center > "dial" function, if possible). I use the same glasses for reading books and > for dealing with terminals -- I am lucky that they are fairly "weak" glasses. > The discussion about z/OSMF? One of these months I will need to spend some > time with it. These days I mostly use a relatively slow machine for z/OS and > the performance is not attractive for z/OSMF. Bill Ogden > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For > IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
