Rocket is also acquiring WebConnect, an enterprise-class terminal emulation solution that will continue the company’s 15-year investment in the critical domain of host access for mainframe systems.

A plug-in board that turns a desktop computer into an IBM mainframe terminal. The first 3270 emulator was the IRMA board from Digital Communications Associates. The board is sometimes called a ...

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 ...

In the days of mainframe computing, one system stood miles ahead of the rest. PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) wasn't special for its power or speed or graphical prowess ...

The Cupertino, Calif. company is releasing its Rumba mainframe terminal emulator and OnWeb virtualization products together as the Host Access Platform, said Vijay Lal, director of product ...

What is also interesting is that just about the time the last large mainframe/terminal implementations were being yanked out by their roots, IT started demanding desktop computing as a service again.

It's the early 1980s, and this young mainframe programmer has a job at a big manufacturer -- but not a lot of real-world data-processing experience. What could he know about what makes Big Iron crash?

There is still great demand for terminal emulation, as a new release from Cybele Software, Inc. shows. The vendor released z/Scope Anywhere 7.0, a remote-computing solution for users of IBM mainframes ...

Were I work (as a mainframe computer operator) we have some old ibm dumb terminals which are a dream to work on. not the usual 3270 dumb mainframe terminals, which are bleh - these are behemoth 21 ...

Until late 1998 all offices used IBM 3278 terminals and RJE (remote job entry) on 3274 style controllers to connect to mainframe services for the two most mission critical applications clusters ...

For example, when someone enters an order into the mainframe via a 3270 terminal interface, an ERP package running on a Unix box can be updated immediately rather than waiting for a batch update.