3278-5, yes, 3279-3, yes. 3279-5 no.

Maybe you're thinking of InfoWindow.

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I think that was a MOD5 unit. As I recall, I had one of those
when I worked on OBS/Wylbur.

On 7/29/2026 7:36 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> 3279-5?
>
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> I had two 3278-4s for a while, then swapped one for a 3279-5 when I worked on 
> a product that did color. Those were GREAT machines, with great keyboards.
>
> Being in the D.C. area, I used to say that if they said the missiles were 
> headed our way, I'd just get under my desk--I might get crushed, but I was 
> pretty sure the 327x would survive just about anything!
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> Pommier, Rex
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> Hey, Radoslaw, I resemble your remarks!  I had a 3290 on my desk decades ago. 
>  Man that thing was noisy!
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> Rex
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> Radoslaw Skorupka
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> They drop veeeery old equipment, which actually cannot be attached to any CPC 
> which could run current OS.
> Even 3380 as an emulation is no longer available in contemporary DASD systems.
> OSAD - you can define it, but it is useless. So you will not loose anything 
> by dropping it.
> 3290 - the only person who remember this dev is Shmuel (that's a joke).
> 3330 - really? It's older than me!
> 9032 - ESCON director. Current OS support z15 and next generations.
> ESCON was available until z196.
> etc.
>
> What about shops using old equipment? They also use old OS.
> I strongly doubt some shop like UBS or BofA is using new shining z17's 
> connected to Bus & Tag or ESCON attached peripherals.
>
> My $0.02
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> W dniu 29.07.2026 o 21:50, Tom Brennan pisze:
>> I was thinking it's the UNIT= parameter in an IOCP, but I could be
>> wrong.  Is that considered a device class?  I never learned HCD.
>>
>> For old-to-new DS8000 hardware migrations, I'll often get a CSV config
>> file from the old DS8000, run it through a script, and come up with
>> CLI commands that will make the new box look like the old one.  I saw
>> some 3380's on a client's box while doing this maybe 5 years ago.
>> Probably gone by now.
>>
>> On 7/29/2026 9:20 AM, Phil Smith III wrote:
>>> If only there was some sort of definitive way to tell, like IBM
>>> specifying the device types and models for which they're dropping
>>> support... /s
>>>
>>> Srsly, device type and model is the canonical way IBM describes
>>> things; I'm gobsmacked that this SoD doesn't list them. Actually it's
>>> even worse: it DOES say "Device Types" but then lists device
>>> *classes* (like "CTC").
>>>
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