IBM 3101
The IBM 3101 ASCII Display Station, and IBM's subsequent products, the 3151/315X and 3161/316X, are display terminals with asynchronous serial communication that were used with a variety of IBM and non-IBM computers during the 1980s–90s, especially the data processing terminals on non-IBM minicomputers, IBM Series/1 and IBM AIX computers.
Models
IBM 3101
The IBM 3101 ASCII Display Station appeared in 1979. It featured:- 12-inch green-phosphor CRT display
- 24 lines of 80 characters
- ASCII Keyboard
- Asynchronous communication: EIA RS-232C interface for short distance; EIA RS-422 interface for longer distance
- Baud rates of 200/300 to 19,200
- Utilized various non-IBM technologies
- Required initial setup by the user
- Consisted of various types of displays, keyboards and logic
- Was serviced at IBM service depots only
- Allowed user-performed diagnostics, via the Problem Determination Guide booklet stored in the keyboard
- Could be purchased but not leased
IBM 3102 printer
The IBM 3102 dot-matrix printer used thermal-paper print technology, and could be attached to the IBM 3101's auxiliary port. It supported 80 5x7 dot-matrix characters per line, 6 lines per inch, and output 40 characters per second.IBM 3161/3163
The IBM 3161/3163 ASCII Display Stations became available in 1985 and featured:- Monochrome 12-inch or 14-inch CRT displays
- Optional cards to emulate other ASCII display terminals: ADDS Viewpoint, Hazeltine 1500, Lear Siegler ADM-3A and ADM 5, and TeleVideo 910
IBM 3164
The IBM 3164 Color ASCII Display Station, available in 1986, featured a 14-inch green, amber or white monochrome CRT display.IBM 3151
The IBM 3151 ASCII Display Station became available in 1987, and included:- 14-inch diagonal green, amber or white CRT display
- 24 lines of 80-132 characters each
- Display/logic and keyboard
- Optional emulation of other 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 display terminals.
- ASCII block operating mode.
IBM 3152
The IBM 3152 Color ASCII Display Station became available in 1992 in European, Middle Eastern and African countries. It included:- ASCII keyboard
- PS/2 keyboard
IBM 3153
The IBM 3153 InfoWindow II Color ASCII Display Station became available in 1993. Similarly to the NCR 2900 series of terminals, it could be used with cash registers and kitchen monitor systems.Development, manufacturing and users
The IBM 3101/315x/316x Series were developed by IBM's Communication Products development laboratories in Fujisawa and Yamato Facility|Yamato], Japan; then later by IBM's development department in Greenock, Scotland. They were manufactured at IBM's Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA, for the Americas and Asia/Pacific; and in Greenock for other countries.They were used as data processing input/output terminals on many minicomputers—especially the IBM Series/1 and IBM AIX—for commercial, government and military applications.