IBM 3101
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IBM 3101 ASCII Display Station, and its follow-on IBM 3151/315X and IBM 3161/316X are display terminals with asynchronous serial communication (start-stop signaling) that were used to attach to a variety of IBM and non-IBM computers, especially the data processing terminals on non-IBM minicomputers, IBM Series/1
and IBM AIX computers, during the 1980's - 1990's.
Compared to IBM's general practice at that time, it featured:
IBM 3101 was used for attachment to a variety of IBM and non-IBM computers and, as asynchronous communication display, competed against Digital Equipment Corporation
(VT100
, etc), Wyse Technology (Wyse 50/60/70, etc.), Applied Digital Data Systems
(ADDS Viewpoint, etc.) and others. It was especially used as the data processing terminals on non-IBM minicomputers and IBM Series/1
.
(Boundless Technologies
) 2900 series of terminals, capable of being used with a register or kitchen monitor system.
(later Yamato
) development laboratory in Japan
and later by the Greenock
, Scotland
, development department in UK. They were manufactured at IBM's Research Triangle Park
, North Carolina
, plant in USA for the Americas and Asia/Pacific; and Greenock, Scotland, plant in UK for Europe/Middle East/Africa.
They were used as data processing input/output terminals on many minicomputers, especially on IBM Series/1 and IBM AIX computers, for commercial, governmental and military applications.
, the IBM 5291 of the IBM 5250
display terminal series for IBM System/36 attachment and IBM 3178 display of the IBM 3270
display terminal series for IBM System/370 attachment were further developed.
IBM Series/1
The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP...
and IBM AIX computers, during the 1980's - 1990's.
IBM 3101
The IBM 3101 ASCII Display Station became available in 1979 and featured the following functions and features:- 12-inch diagonal, green-phosphor CRTCathode ray tubeThe cathode ray tube is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun and a fluorescent screen used to view images. It has a means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam onto the fluorescent screen to create the images. The image may represent electrical waveforms , pictures , radar targets and...
display - 24 lines of 80 characters
- Keyboard
- ASCII keyboard: US English, Belgian, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese Katakana, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German, or UK English
- Asynchronous communications: EIA RS-232C interface for short distance connection or EIA RS-422 interface for longer distance connection
- Communications speed from 200/300 to 19,200 bits per second
- US English or one of the world's other major languages:
Compared to IBM's general practice at that time, it featured:
- Use of many non-IBM technologies
- Initial setup by the user
- Consists of three elements (Display, Keyboard and Logic) which can be mixed
- Maintenance service at IBM service depots only
- User's self diagnostics, by referencing the Problem Determination Guide booklet stored in the keyboard
- Purchase only, with volume discount. No lease offering
IBM 3101 was used for attachment to a variety of IBM and non-IBM computers and, as asynchronous communication display, competed against Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
(VT100
VT100
The VT100 is a video terminal that was made by Digital Equipment Corporation . Its detailed attributes became the de facto standard for terminal emulators.-History:...
, etc), Wyse Technology (Wyse 50/60/70, etc.), Applied Digital Data Systems
Applied Digital Data Systems
Applied Digital Data Systems, or ADDS, was a leading supplier of high-quality video display computer terminals, founded in 1969 by Leeam Lowin and William J. Catacosinos. Lowin simultaneously founded Solid State Data Sciences...
(ADDS Viewpoint, etc.) and others. It was especially used as the data processing terminals on non-IBM minicomputers and IBM Series/1
IBM Series/1
The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP...
.
IBM 3102 Printer
IBM 3102 Printer using thermal paper-dot matrix printing technology can be attached to IBM 3101's auxiliary port, for horizontal 80 characters per line, vertical 6 lines per inch, each character in 5x7 dot matrix, at the speed of 40 characters per second.IBM 3161/3163
IBM 3161/3163 ASCII Display Stations became available in 1985 and featured the following:- Monochrome CRT display, 12-inch CRT (3161) or 14-inch CRT (3163)
- Optional cards to emulate other ASCII display terminals: ADDS Viewpoint, HazeltineHazeltine CorporationHazeltine Corporation was a defense electronics company which is now part of BAE Systems Inc.-History:The company was founded in 1924 by investors to exploit the Neutrodyne patent of Dr. Alan Hazeltine...
1500, Lear SieglerLear SieglerLear Siegler Incorporated was created as a result of a merger between the Siegler Corporation and Lear Avionics Inc. that was concluded in 1961. John G. Brooks was the founder; President and Chairman of Siegler and William Lear was the founder; President and Chairman at Lear...
ADM 3A and ADM 5, and TeleVideoTelevideoTeleVideo Corporation is a U.S. company that achieved its peak of success in the early 1980s producing computer terminals. TeleVideo was founded in 1979 by K. Philip Hwang, a Utah State University graduate born in North Korea who had run a business producing CRT monitors for arcade games since 1975...
910
IBM 3164
IBM 3164 Color ASCII Display Station became available in 1986:- 14-inch color CRT display
IBM 3151
IBM 3151 ASCII Display Station became available in 1987:- 14-inch diagonal color CRT display (specify green, amber or white screen)
- 24 lines of 80-132 characters each
- Consists of two elements: Display/Logic and Keyboard
- Optionally offered emulation of other ASCII display terminals: Lear Siegler ADM-3A, ADM-5, ADDS Viewpoint A2, Hazeltine 1500, Televideo TVI-910/910+, TVI-912, TVI-920, TVI-925, TVI-925E, and IBM 3101.
- ASCII block operating mode except for models 51 and 61 with similar advantages to the EBCDICEBCDICExtended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code is an 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems....
IBM 3270IBM 3270The IBM 3270 is a class of block oriented terminals made by IBM since 1972 normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. As such, it was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text colour on the original models, these terminals are informally known as green screen terminals...
.
IBM 3152
IBM 3152 Color ASCII Display Station became available in 1992 in the IBM Europe/Middle East/Africa countries only:- Keyboard
- ASCII keyboard: US English, Belgian, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German, or UK English.
- PS/2 keyboard: US English, Belgian, Bosnian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Slovak, Slv/Croat/Sl, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German, Turkish U, Turkish Q Hebrew, or UK English.
IBM 3153
IBM 3153 InfoWindow II Color ASCII Display Station became available in 1993. It was manufactured similarly to the NCRNCR Corporation
NCR Corporation is an American technology company specializing in kiosk products for the retail, financial, travel, healthcare, food service, entertainment, gaming and public sector industries. Its main products are self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automated teller machines, check...
(Boundless Technologies
SunRiver Data Systems
SunRiver Data Systems was a division of SunRiver Corporation, a private company founded in 1986 in Jackson, Mississippi by four electrical engineers , all former employees of Diversified Technology, Inc...
) 2900 series of terminals, capable of being used with a register or kitchen monitor system.
Development, Manufacturing and Users
The IBM 3101/315x/316x Series of ASCII display stations were developed by IBM Communication Products Division's FujisawaFujisawa, Kanagawa
is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 407,731 and a population density of 5,870 people per km². The total area is 69.51 km²-Geography:...
(later Yamato
IBM Yamato Facility
IBM Yamato Facility located in the city of Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is where IBM's research and development activities are done for IBM's worldwide and Asia-Pacific region market. Its buildings were designed by the architecture firm of Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and completed in...
) development laboratory in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and later by the Greenock
Greenock
Greenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, development department in UK. They were manufactured at IBM's Research Triangle Park
Research Triangle Park
The Research Triangle Park is a research park in the United States. It is located near Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
, plant in USA for the Americas and Asia/Pacific; and Greenock, Scotland, plant in UK for Europe/Middle East/Africa.
They were used as data processing input/output terminals on many minicomputers, especially on IBM Series/1 and IBM AIX computers, for commercial, governmental and military applications.
Its Effect
This ASCII display station series was the base from which low-cost IBM 3104 display of the IBM 8100IBM 8100
See also: IBM 8000 series, canceled in 1961The IBM 8100 was at one time IBM’s principal distributed processing engine, providing local processing capability under two incompatible operating systems and was follow-on to IBM 3790....
, the IBM 5291 of the IBM 5250
IBM 5250
IBM 5250 was originally a family of terminal devices sold with the IBM System/34 minicomputer systems. One model was the IBM 5251-11. It also connected to the later System/36, System/38 and AS/400 systems.- Historical origins :...
display terminal series for IBM System/36 attachment and IBM 3178 display of the IBM 3270
IBM 3270
The IBM 3270 is a class of block oriented terminals made by IBM since 1972 normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. As such, it was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text colour on the original models, these terminals are informally known as green screen terminals...
display terminal series for IBM System/370 attachment were further developed.
See also
- Asynchronous serial communication
- IBM Series/1IBM Series/1The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP...
& IBM AIX - IBM 5250IBM 5250IBM 5250 was originally a family of terminal devices sold with the IBM System/34 minicomputer systems. One model was the IBM 5251-11. It also connected to the later System/36, System/38 and AS/400 systems.- Historical origins :...
and IBM 3270IBM 3270The IBM 3270 is a class of block oriented terminals made by IBM since 1972 normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. As such, it was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text colour on the original models, these terminals are informally known as green screen terminals... - List of IBM products
- Digital Equipment CorporationDigital Equipment CorporationDigital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
& VT100VT100The VT100 is a video terminal that was made by Digital Equipment Corporation . Its detailed attributes became the de facto standard for terminal emulators.-History:... - Wyse Technology
External links
- IBM 3151 models
- IBM history of Far Eastern Languages in Computing. Part 3. IBM Japan taking the lead, accomplishments through the 1990s (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 27, Issue 1, Jan.-March 2005)
- IBM 3152 Display Terminals - FRU Substitution (AF/E and E/ME/A only)