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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ironcoder on Wed, 03 June 2009, 06:36:39

Title: What keyboard was the original 3270 based on?
Post by: ironcoder on Wed, 03 June 2009, 06:36:39

With all the talk about Model Ms I did some research and I guess I did use those keyboards and loved them for years. It has been so long that I have been on brand-X keyboards I just forgot about all that until I found this site and started looking around.

Does anybody know, what keyboard did the IBM 3270 terminal use, and did it make the transition to a PC keyboard? Those old keyboards were lightning fast to use, with a very positive action. I hammered out hundreds of thousands of lines of code on those and 3279s until we started using PCs instead of terminals.