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  1. Why did IBM develop 5250 block mode terminals when 3270 …

    Apr 10, 2020 · IBM introduced the 3270 family of block mode terminals in 1971, for use with IBM mainframes (System/370 and successors). Then, in 1977, IBM introduced the 5250 family of …

  2. network - In The Fractalist, how did high school students connect …

    The 3270 was introduced as part of a sophisticated family of nodes and communication devices allowing construction of large terminal based installations in varying distances and setup. …

  3. Implementation details about Lotus 1-2-3/M

    Apr 4, 2025 · The Wikipedia page on the IBM 3270 family of terminals, which are the normal kind for IBM mainframes, mentions that the page-orientated user interfaces which that kind of …

  4. How to connect c3270 terminal with hercules emulator?

    Feb 3, 2018 · Using a 3270 emulator, start a telnet session to port 3270 for device 010. This is the OS master console. It must be defined and connected at IPL, or the IPL will hang. The first …

  5. emulation - How does one customize the 3270 TSO terminal login …

    8 When using a pre-built system image such as the "VM/370 sixpack" or "MVS Tur (n)key" under Hercules, when a user connects a 3270 terminal, a login screen comes up with a banned …

  6. history - How did SABRE work interactively without screens ...

    Feb 5, 2021 · Once the IBM 3270 video terminals were introduced, of course SABRE would have started using those, but they were only introduced in 1971. What did it use for user interface …

  7. What was the first keyboard to have browser forward/back keys?

    Mar 22, 2019 · 6 The web didn’t exist back then, but some of IBM’s 3270 terminal keyboards had forward and back keys; for example the keyboard provided with the 3279 terminal in 1979 …

  8. Overstriking for APL on 3270s? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange

    Mar 27, 2020 · This question addressed the question of APL overstrikes on printing terminals. However, IBM also had 3270 video display terminals that supported APL, as well, and those, …

  9. history - How was it possible to run IBM mainframe software in ...

    Nov 25, 2020 · I don't know what environment they installed to run their software on the HP. The vendor did all the work. For all I know it was just raw COBOL with an IBM compatible runtime …

  10. What is a Dumb Terminal? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange

    Jan 11, 2022 · While the 3270 offered a great way to offload low-level interactivity (aka editing) without leaving the basic terminal paradigm, later development stopped them being terminals …