I like the 3151 myself, mostly because it was able to cope with the weird cabling the RS/6000 needed (you'd need three gender changers and 5 crossovers to make a normal DEC VT220 work) and because the TERMCAP database entries for "common" terminals (like VT100, et al.) were - probably deliberately - FUBAR in AIX. I might even have one still somewhere down in the depth of my attic.
For work i use either a workstation capable of X or - if i have to use one of these Windoze-contraptions - Opentext Exceed, so i can use XTerms. Xdefaults are badly misconfigured in AIX and Linux as well and out of the box XTerms are ugly and cumbersome to work with, but with a little tweaking XTerms are far better (and the same everywhere) than AIXterms (IBMs replacement), dtterms (CDEs replacement) or the G- K- and whatever-terms Linux throws at one. There is nothing as original as the original itself, IMHO.
Here is what i use as Xdefaults for XTerm:
And here are the calls for my preferred XTerm colour schemes, the first one is for editing, the second is my "root window":
PS: since this came up: i started my programming career on IBM OS/360 as an Assembler programmer in the late seventies. This Assembler was the first language i learned.
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