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IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]

30 points by hggh - 8 comments
aflores57 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
quite a collection of documents. I was looking for CICS related manuals but I could not find them.

Thank you for keeping this

bitsavers [3 hidden]5 mins ago
if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS
lokinorkle [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Great! Still in use today at some retailers like Costco and Best Buy!
rbanffy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

3270 is a very efficient form of distributed computing where terminals and their controllers control a lot of state and the mainframe is in charge of the more important things. It was a browser from the 60’s, mostly 70’s.

bitsavers [3 hidden]5 mins ago
There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.
rbanffy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It’s really a quite simple transformation. All the core ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.
bigfatkitten [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Close! Costco is 5250, which has many similarities.

They are a very famous AS/400 shop.

roscas [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very nice, thank you.