Re: 3489 IBM Terminals

With IBM discontinuing them, are there any 3rd party alternatives ?

Thanks, Ron

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From: <barsa@barsaconsulting.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: RE: 3489 IBM Terminals


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> I own several.
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> Al  -  in London for COMMON Europe  (It's a tough job, but somebody's...)
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> Al Barsa, Jr.
> Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
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>                     D.BALE@handleman.co
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> >Problem was you're the first person I've heard of who admits to owning
> one.
> >No one seemed interested in IBM's fantastic GUI breakthrough.
>
> Make that "IBM's fantastic *but proprietary and expensive* GUI
> breakthrough"
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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> -------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
> > My 3489 used to crash the v4r3 wrkstn controller when the insert key was
> > pressed.
> >
> > And its very good shared addressing feature was not supported on
> > the wsc of
> > the 720 it was connected to.
> >
> > Never could find documentation on how the image view worked on it
either.
> >
>
> Steve,
>
> We did some work getting our fax product to display incoming faxes on a
> 3489
> a long time ago.
>
> As far as i recall it would display tiff images.  The interface was in c
> and
> was fairly flexible in where you could display the image, the zoom etc.
> Once on screen you could pan the image (using the mouse).  All in all it
> worked fine as a green screen plus kind of thing.
>
> Problem was you're the first person I've heard of who admits to owning
one.
> No one seemed interested in IBM's fantastic GUI breakthrough.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Daniel Webb
> Cobwebb Communications Ltd
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