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rbanffyyesterday at 10:19 PM1 replyview on HN

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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bitsaversyesterday at 10:29 PM

There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.

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