[HN Gopher] IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Progr...
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       IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols
       (1979) [pdf]
        
       Author : hggh
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2026-04-04 17:20 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | roscas wrote:
       | Very nice, thank you.
        
       | aflores57 wrote:
       | quite a collection of documents. I was looking for CICS related
       | manuals but I could not find them.
       | 
       | Thank you for keeping this
        
         | bitsavers wrote:
         | if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under
         | ibm/370/CICS
        
       | lokinorkle wrote:
       | Great! Still in use today at some retailers like Costco and Best
       | Buy!
        
         | rbanffy wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams
           | and reformat them to export as html.
        
             | rbanffy wrote:
             | It's really a quite simple transformation. All the core
             | ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.
        
         | bigfatkitten wrote:
         | Close! Costco is 5250, which has many similarities.
         | 
         | They are a very famous AS/400 shop.
        
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