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+" ...

Remember the mainframe “green screen” 3270 terminals used by so many companies? Well, they haven’t gone away. Tim Grieser, program vice president at IDC, is of the opinion that the number of currently ...

This is the third in a series of newsletters that is exploring our premise that we are returning to a new generation of mainframe computing. With that in mind, this newsletter will continue the ...

Back in 1991, InfoWorld‘s then Editor in Chief Stewart Alsop predicted the plug would be pulled on the last mainframe in five years. Oops. Eight years after their ...

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 "coax ...

Brandon Systems, a mainframe modernization tools vendor, recently acquired Jolly Giant Software Inc., a developer of terminal emulation software. This acquisition complements WIRE (Web Interface Rules ...

In a bid to help mainframe-dependent companies protect their investments, BMC Software Inc. is rolling out software designed to simplify and automate big-iron systems management processes for a wider ...