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<CA+Myz1WrTaxPoJk_8ODT4DofHG5L6=zr96bos01nd1atgqh...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 09/09/2013
at 10:29 AM, Quasar Chunawala <[email protected]> said:
>Today, the mainframe staff in any enterprise work on PC running
>special software(the terminal emulator) to connect to the *mainframe
>server* over the company intranet. But, back in the 1960's, when
>mainframes were young, what were some of input devices?
Just for IBM mainframe their were a variety of IBM and Teletype®
terminals in common use. I believe that the 2741 was the most popular.
>Has anyone typed TSO or compiled programs
>on a tele-typewriter model 33?
Not I, at least not on an IBM system. I may have done so for a UNIVAC
1230, but, if so, I've gratefully forgotten.
>What was it like to work on a key-punch
>machine? How was the experience?
Better than handing coding sheets to a keypunch operator and
correcting her errors; not as good as using an online text editor.
>I suppose, 3278 terminals were introduced much later by IBM.
Yes, but the 3277 was available much earlier, in 1971.
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