IBM 1015 (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. "Customer Engineering Introduction to The IBM 1015 Inquiry Display Terminal" (PDF). IBM.
  2. "Digital Computer Newsletter". 1961. The IBM 1015 inquiry display terminal is designed to operate as an inquiry device for System/360
  3. Booklet 520-1122 IBM 1015/2250/2260.
  4. "IBM's Early Flat Screen CRT Terminal".
  5. "IBM System/360 System Summary" (PDF). BitSavers. IBM Systems Reference Library.
  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. archive of pre-Internet-founded talk group for computer professionals John Savard. "IBM's Early Flat Screen CRT Terminal".


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