IBM 3279 Terminal

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Sridhar,

The h-e-a-v-y one (all metal case) was the 3179. The 3279 has a plastic 
case and used to feel like it would fall apart when I would dope-slap it 
whenever the lighting bolts appeared in the status area at the bottom of 
the screen. A 3178 would take the slap with a thud that made your hand hurt.

Jim


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> On Monday 24 September 2007, Chris M wrote:
>>> is it color or green COUGH. If that's the model I'm
>>> thinking of, it has a fair amount of peecee mobo stuff
>>> inside. 
>>
>> By the part number, it's a color terminal, and it's nothing like the 
>> later, smaller coax terminals... bigger, heavier, and probably built 
>> before the 8086 was released.
>
> The 3279 (for which I'm looking for a few clean examples, if I can 
> find them...) is so heavy that if one falls out of the back of a 
> truck, they'd have to replace the pavement.  I have some sales docs 
> which mention desk strength requirements.  The 3279 is a good bit 
> heavier than the 3278.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar