At 01:11 PM 3/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>At 01:27 PM 3/10/98, you wrote:
>> This morning I went to a trift store and found an IBM PC that said
>>"Personal Computer 3270". How rare are these? I've never seen one before.
>>I have seen AT 3270s but not a PC. This one had a full height hard drive
>>with IBM logo on it and a full height 5 1/4" floppy drive with IBM's logo.
>>It had model 5271 marked on the back.
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>Whatever you do, don't throw the 3270 adapters, keyboard adapters or APA
>cards (the card that bridges to the display adapter) away. Those are hard
>to come by, and we get calls for them on a regular basis.
Let me know what these parts look like and I'll grab them for you if you
want them. I think I know which one is the display adapter. (Does it have
a small red shaft sticking out? Looks like a miniture circuit breaker?) Is
the keyboard adapter external or internal? If it's external, then it's
already off the machine but I might be able to find it if you give me a
description.
Joe
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>> Also a few weeks ago I saw an IBM AT that was marked "Personnal Computer
>>AT Store Controller". What is it for? I've never heard of one. The owner
>>said that he had already "modified it" to make it a regular computer.
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>Yup, that's a POS box. I think the Albertson's grocery chain here in
>Oklahoma still use them. At the stroke of midnight every day, all their
>registers go offline for about 15 minutes and the managers and cashiers
>scream back and forth at each other. That's the first sign that IBMs are in
>use.
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>> Joe
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>Thank you,
>
>David Wollmann
>dwollmann_at_ibmhelp.com
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Received on Tue Mar 10 1998 - 14:49:26 GMT