geekhack

geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: czarek on Mon, 26 September 2011, 10:31:24

Title: IBM Beam Spring Terminal 3277
Post by: czarek on Mon, 26 September 2011, 10:31:24

http://allegro.pl/unikat-ibm-3277-lata-70-te-i1839051194.html

I can help you getting it and shipping internationally if you want to play with it.
Looks a bit dirty but working. 449 PLN is around USD 150 so not a bad price for such vintage.
Seller says it weights 35 KG so be prepared for super expensive shipping. Especially across ocean.

Title: IBM Beam Spring Terminal 3277
Post by: theferenc on Mon, 26 September 2011, 20:25:35

Damn, that whole setup would be nice to have when I teach the History of Computing course. I'll have to see if I can talk the department into ordering it.

Title: IBM Beam Spring Terminal 3277
Post by: czarek on Tue, 27 September 2011, 02:12:33

Please note it's German keyboard layout though.

Title: IBM Beam Spring Terminal 3277
Post by: theferenc on Tue, 27 September 2011, 11:30:37

It's more the history of it, and being able to have a piece of that history. It wouldn't be used for actual work, and enough wonky keyboard layouts exist from that time that they likely wouldn't even notice that it was german.

It would be more an issue of showing the progression.

Title: IBM Beam Spring Terminal 3277
Post by: czarek on Tue, 27 September 2011, 16:00:34

Well I'd buy this terminal for myself but I have way too much of vintage stuff (mostly Amigas, but also Macs and PCs) and I just simply don't have any place to put it - not even basements (mine and my parents') as they're already full of nice stuff. My garage is not heated and gets very cold during winter so I don't store computer related things there. And no - what I have stored there is my treasure and I'm not going to sell any of it, even if I have to sleep on a bed made from A500's motherboards :D

Title: IBM Beam Spring Terminal 3277
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Tue, 27 September 2011, 17:33:21

I'd love to get this to use it as a dedicated porn watching machine. I wonder if I could hook a DVD player up to it somehow.

Title: IBM Beam Spring Terminal 3277
Post by: czarek on Wed, 28 September 2011, 02:59:20

Quote from: BiNiaRiS;422319

I'd love to get this to use it as a dedicated porn watching machine. I wonder if I could hook a DVD player up to it somehow.

It could work for you if you like watching porn in text mode :D