However, mainframe IBM computers used an odd style of terminal and emulating it on a PC isn’t always as satisfying. At least, that’s what [lowobservable] thought, so he decided to get a 3270 ...

He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe computers and timesharing terminals. Users would log in to an account from a ...

By the mid-1970s, video terminals became the cheapest way for multiple people to interact with a single large, expensive mainframe computer system. Around that time, hobbyists also used them ...

[Norbert Keher] has one and explains in great detail how to connect it to a mainframe ... that many terminals from IBM and other vendors used to use a block mode where the computer would dump ...

They considered such issues as the needs of administrators and managers, how terminals would connect to mainframe computers, what kind of hardware to buy and how to maintain it and which software ...

In the early UNIX days, users didn't have PCs - they connected to a UNIX mainframe computer via computer terminals. They were "dumb" devices that included a keyboard and display, but most of which ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines ... All display is through character-based screens using 3270 emulated terminals. This is the ancient and proverbial “green screen.” ...

When you think of mainframes, you probably think of spinning tape drives, reams of computer cards, and text-only, green-on-black 3270 terminals. IBM's latest mainframe, the LinuxONE Emperor 5 ...

He had three massive terminals crammed into a room next to his office. Each one was connected to a different mainframe computer. They all worked slightly differently, and it was frustrating to ...