IBM_1015_(terminal)

IBM 1015 (terminal)

IBM 1015 (terminal)

Display terminal

The IBM 1015[1][2] is a display terminal for the IBM System/360.[3][4][5] IBM suggested that it be used for phone-based customer support.[6]: p. 6 

History

It was exhibited during the 1964 introduction of the IBM System/360 and included in the official System Summary.[7] Other display devices introduced and co-marketed by IBM were the IBM 2250[6]: p. 6  and the IBM 2260.[3]

Product description

The screen was round,[7] and it sat forward and above a keyboard. The display area could hold 30 lines, each with up to 40 characters, selected from A–Z, 0–9, and 26 special characters. Output was 650 characters per second.[1] It came with a desk.[3] Up to ten 1015s could be connected to the IBM 1016 Control Unit or the IBM 1414 Input/Output Synchronizer.[5][6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Customer Engineering Introduction to The IBM 1015 Inquiry Display Terminal" (PDF). IBM.
  2. [2]
    "Digital Computer Newsletter". 1961. The IBM 1015 inquiry display terminal is designed to operate as an inquiry device for System/360
  3. [3]
    Booklet 520-1122 IBM 1015/2250/2260.
  4. [4]
    "IBM's Early Flat Screen CRT Terminal".
  5. [5]
    "IBM System/360 System Summary" (PDF). BitSavers. IBM Systems Reference Library.
  6. [6]
    "The entire concept of computers has changed" (PDF). Inquiry Display Terminal can display records from your central file on a dark trace cathode ray tube similar to a television.
  7. [7]
    archive of pre-Internet-founded talk group for computer professionals John Savard. "IBM's Early Flat Screen CRT Terminal".


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