Anybody remember the IBM 3270 PC? I worked on one in the mid 1980s. IIRC, it could have 4 sessions with one coax attached to the 3x74. Again IIRC, the next three coax locations on the 3x74 had to be empty. I assume there was some sort of configuration done to the 3x74 to make this work.
Richard Pinion "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Thursday, July 30th, 2026 at 2:30 PM, Jay Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: > "Smile when you say that, podnuh" is an Old West (probably just movies, not > real life) cliche for "That's usually insulting, but it's the truth for me > and I'm proud to own it". Never let it be said this list isn't culturally > educational. > > For my paying job, I use ZOC exclusively. Kinda hard to run coax from > Austin to southern Minnesota, and the z16 we run doesn't have any 3x74s on > it anyway. For a few years around Y2K, I worked for a company that did > console consolidation, and emulated 3278-2s over coax (as well as VT100s) > with a custom card and an S3-based microcontroller. I still have the > firmware source for that somewhere around here. Aside from that, though, I > didn't do mainframes professionally after 1995, and even then I had a PC > with an IRMA card. That landed on my desk in 1993. > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 6:47 AM Radoslaw Skorupka < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Now I learnt new word: podnuh. Thanks! > > Hard to find in the translators and google's first answer is... some > > Internet service with some movies... > > However I have found the correct meaning. > > > > To keep the discussion on topic: how many of us still use *real* > > terminals? I'm not talking about models, just "hard" terminal, > > coax-attached, etc. Not an emulator. > > > > Personally I've been using it for MVS consoles till z196. Then migrated > > to PC, because my 3174's were ESCON attached and z196 was the last > > machine supporting that channel. FICON/ESCON converter was waaay to > > expensive for that purpose. I also had 2074 (got it for free!), but it > > was also ESCON-attached. > > Obviously I migrated to ICC, but that mean use of emulators. Or > > appliances - with built-in emulators, etc. > > > > I have never had real terminal on my desktop. It was always some emulator. > > > > -- > > Radoslaw Skorupka > > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > > W dniu 30.07.2026 o 00:52, Jay Maynard pisze: > > > Smile when you say that, podnuh. I'd love to have a 3290 on my desk. > > Right > > > next to the 3279-S3G-1 that I use daily. > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 3:45 PM Radoslaw Skorupka < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> 3290 - the only person who remember this dev is Shmuel (that's a joke). > > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
