In <CA+Myz1WrTaxPoJk_8ODT4DofHG5L6=zr96bos01nd1atgqh...@mail.gmail.com>, on 09/09/2013 at 10:29 AM, Quasar Chunawala <quasar.chunawa...@gmail.com> 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. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN