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An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

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33 points by bri3d 6 days ago · 7 comments

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zoky 2 hours ago

It is a work in progress and is far from providing all the features you might expect from a later model 3174, but it does provide basic TN3270 and VT100 emulation.

+ TN3270

+ Extended Data Stream

+ Basic TN3270E

+ Device name (LU) negotiation

o SSL/TLS

I think that last one is a joke but I really don’t know enough about this sort of thing to be sure…

dare944 7 hours ago

I really know next to nothing about the IBM mainframe world--I'm more of a retro-DEC guy. But that seeing that beautiful 3278 terminal pegs my retro-envy needle every time. God I would love to own one!

skissane 6 days ago

I wonder how hard it would be to write an emulator to run the actual 3174 software?

  • uxhacker 8 hours ago

    The ibm 3174 was just a controller to then link the terminals to an AS400 mini / mainframe

    • kev009 6 hours ago

      The 3174 support async hosts among other conversions so it would be interesting.

      I forget if this was one of the products that used the 801/AMERICA CPU, I don't think it's a COTS microprocessor.

farklenotabot 6 hours ago

Can sell this to Costco and best buy

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