IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]
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by hggh
7 hours ago
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aflores57
2 hours ago
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quite a collection of documents. I was looking for CICS related manuals but I could not find them.

Thank you for keeping this

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bitsavers
1 hour ago
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if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS
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lokinorkle
2 hours ago
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Great! Still in use today at some retailers like Costco and Best Buy!
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rbanffy
2 hours ago
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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.

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

They are a very famous AS/400 shop.

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roscas
6 hours ago
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Very nice, thank you.
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