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GNOME Terminal's four presets are: 80x24, 80x43, 132x24, 132x43

I always kind of figured "132" was some arbitrary programmer decision, never knew it dated to old terminals. At least I recognize 24 and 43 as the number of lines old text modes (on, eg, VGA) had.

Some old SVGA cards from the 1990s had a ~132x60 mode (as well as a bunch of others), that could be activated in DOS with the RHIDE editor that came with DJGPP (no doubt there were other ways), or with SVGATextMode in Linux.

This.

I know the DEC VT340 was capable of 132 columns, as was an Apple II with a Videx Ultraterm card and a suitable (hi-res) monitor.

There are probably even more examples, but those two are what came to mind first.

Ahhh, the good ol’ DEC VT-240 CRT.