{"id":1045,"date":"2014-04-28T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2014-04-29T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:33:30","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-ibm-smart-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1045\/retro-scan-of-the-week-ibm-smart-desk","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> IBM Smart Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_smartdesk_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ibm_smartdesk_small.jpg\" alt=\"IBM 3270 PC Smart Desk 1985\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Multitasking in the early days.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_3270_PC\" target=\"_blank\">IBM 3270 PC<\/a>.  What a strange beast.  It was essentially an IBM PC that could also emulate an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_3270\" target=\"_blank\">IBM 3270<\/a> terminal, which allowed it to link up to IBM mainframes.  In a sense, this was IBM&#8217;s version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1002\/retro-scan-of-the-week-appleline\" target=\"_blank\">AppleLine protocol adapter<\/a> (featured in a Retro Scan a few weeks ago), albeit one built into an IBM PC.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, look at the keyboard on this machine.  Function keys galore.  I&#8217;ve always wanted one of those.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From TIME, May 6 1985, p.B14-B15]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever used an IBM mainframe computer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multitasking in the early days. Ah, the IBM 3270 PC. What a strange beast. It was essentially an IBM PC that could also emulate an IBM 3270 terminal, which allowed it to link up to IBM mainframes. In a sense, this was IBM&#8217;s version of the AppleLine protocol adapter (featured in a Retro Scan a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,27,26,10],"tags":[72,805,806,150,807,132,133,804,60,803],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-72","tag-805","tag-3270-pc","tag-advertisement","tag-appleline","tag-ibm","tag-ibm-pc","tag-mainframe","tag-retro-scan","tag-smart-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}