[rescue] Does anyone know what the Comparex 7/71 was?

Adam Sampson ats at offog.org
Wed Jun 28 13:47:27 CDT 2017


Chris Patti <cpatti at gmail.com> writes:

> Is it a dumb terminal? Industrial control gear? Something else?

Computex was a joint venture between Siemens and BASF circa 1990, so I'm
assuming this is the console of a rebadged BASF 7/71:
https://www.computerwoche.de/a/basf-erweitert-76x-serie,1173982

The article mentions that the 7/71 was IBM 4381 compatible, and indeed
there's a pretty decent resemblance to the 4381's 3278-2A console:
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pics/ibm4331/ibm3278.jpg

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