Best keyboard EVER..... But, as I recall, you had to snip a wire to quiet the clicker.
Those terminals were beasts....
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Subject: Re: Dedicated console
Hi Patrik,
I think you can add;
5251 Model 11 - Local terminal and
5251 model 12 - remote workstation and controller
These devices originally for S34, S38 I am sure were also used on AS400
I remember very well that the keyboards were, in my opinion, really great.
The positioning and size of the keys, but most importantly the feel of
the key press.
I was one of the last programmers to have my 5251 replaced with a 3196 and
I fought that day for a long time!!!
Cheers
Don
From: "Patrik Schindler" <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
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Date: 25/05/2021 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Dedicated console
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Hello James,
Am 21.05.2021 um 19:20 schrieb James H. H. Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
[...] I am a terminal-jock, from the beginning.
Interesting read, thanks for that!
My very first AS/400 experience was with a 3487-HC.
Which features did this model have? It's not too easy to find information
about models and sub-models of 5250 terminals today. Hmm.
I've started a table on
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftry-as400.pocnet.net%2Fwiki%2FIBM_Twinax-Terminals_Overview&data=04%7C01%7C%7C3f46ce21492744e368b408d91fcc7028%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637575785190245869%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DVHmhFKW2Uud9t5yIXM4nGpPlUitIpFCD9N%2BXRM9GYU%3D&reserved=0 from what
I've found in the English wikipedia's 5250 article.
If anybody has further information to fill missing fields, or expand the
table, please let me know.
And I find it extremely irritating that no emulator that has ever
enjoyed official IBM support has even come close to the elegant aesthetics
of a 3487,
I don't have 3487, only two green 3486-BGX (one with a tube with a broken
neck - searching for a replacement tube in Europe! Biggest problem is to
find one with the same screen slope. Electrically I can adapt almost any
monochrome tube.), a 3477-HCX, and a 3477 with a white phosphor tube.
Unfortunately, I can't find out the name.
and that IBM has thrown out a connectivity technology as bulletproof as
Twinax.
See fellow commenters remarks. For me, Twinax is by far the easiest
solution for having a console attached. If the machine has Twinax, and
there's a Twinax-Terminal, though.
:wq! PoC
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