The 2260 had no function keys.

The 3270 was available with half a dozen keyboard arrangements, with no, five 
or 12 function keys.


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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480 characters?  Sounds like Twitter.

Was the 2260 keyboard the one with two, count 'em, two PF keys?

Robert Crawford
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>From:    Seymour J Metz <[email protected]>
>Yep, "Model 1 displays 480 characters (12 rows of 40 characters)."
>Did you have keyboard issues?

My memory of those ancient history days (early 70s) simply fails too much. I 
seem to remember "something" simple we did with the keyboard, but the details 
have vanished. (And I am probably confusing it with the 2260 keyboards from a 
few years earlier!)

Bill Ogden

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