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The grand daddy of them all. Often called a boat anchor because it weighed so much.Definitely JHHL's kind of instrument. No synthesied sounds. The keyboard "box" contained a genuine solenoidclicker for both notification messages and keyboard effects.
Tell me: I've seen references in the 5250 data stream manual to a 5252, the first 5250 terminal with two "sides" -- but I understand that unlike InfoWindows and Yestations, with their figurative "sides," the 5252 had two LITERAL sides, two physical screens and keyboards facing opposite directions.
Is that some kind of a put-on, or was there really such an animal?
Likewise, were there really once 5250 screen formats with fewer than 24 lines or fewer than 80 columns?
-----Back in high school, we had 2 multiplexed phone lines going to an IBM 370/135 (running McGill University's MUSIC operating system) at the district office. We had mostly Lear ADM-1s, Datamedia Elites, and Decwriters. We got word that we were getting a new printing terminal, one made by Teletype. I groaned when I first heard it, imagining a bulky, noisy beast limited to 110 Baud (when everything else in the room was at 300). Turned out it wasn't a 33; it was a 43. Same terminal you might have seen on Quincy, attached to one of the analytical machines. Compact, and no noiser or slower than the Decwriters.
The keyboard, though otherwise all electronic, had mechanical keyclick (not to mention a really nice feel). And the "bell" on it was a literal, mechanical bell. Being high school students, we immediately wrote trivial little programs that made it sound like a telephone was ringing. I even wrote a silly little online short story about Maxwell Smart and his shoephone (complete with sound effects).
-- JHHL
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