Re: Dedicated console

Hello Don,

Am 26.05.2021 um 00:28 schrieb Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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

Thanks for pointing out! Searching for more information, I guess, the screen was always ca. 14" Green? Was there 27 by 132 already? I guess, no.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/5250_5251/GA21-9337-2_5250_Information_Display_System_Planning_and_Site_Prep_Jan80.pdf

On PDF page 43, there's a 5252 shown. What's that?! A terminal on one side and… a card reader?

A page further I see that the 5251/12 is a 5251/11 with kind of a 5394 integrated. Understood.

I remember very well that the keyboards were, in my opinion, really great.

From what I have seen, it reminds me very much of 1970's typewriters. ;-)

For your entertainment:
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=23861
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=23885

I was somewhat surprised to see it has a fan!

The positioning and size of the keys, but most importantly the feel of
the key press.

That's what the author of the above articles also wrote. :-)

:wq! PoC