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The SDL Hercules 4.x Hyperion version of the System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
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IBM 3270 terminal with 122-key keyboard #597

Closed Torinde closed 12 months ago

Torinde commented 1 year ago

Which of the emulated machines support IBM 3270 terminals?

I'm interested into finding something where the 122-key keyboards can be tested - related to https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/2281 and https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues/4127

Same question elsewhere: open-simh/simh/issues/290, Hercules-Aethra/aethra/issues/10

Fish-Git commented 12 months ago

Since no one else has bothered to answer, I will try.

As far as I know, just about every IBM and non-IBM operating system supports 3270 display devices.

If your concern is which of them support real 3270 devices (i.e. real physical hardware devices), the answer is a bit more complicated.

Hercules's 3270 device support is provided via a TCP/IP telnet connection to a tn3270 (telnet) emulator client:

I believe more than one of our users has managed to connect real physical 3270 devices to Hercules, but I personally do not know how they accomplished it, as it is outside the scope of Hercules.

I believe Jay Maynard, the maintainer of Hercules Aethra, may be one of those individuals who has accomplished it, so you might want to contact him.

A quick Google search uncovered the following web page which you may (or may not!) find useful that describes how one person managed to accomplish it:

Hope that helps!

I am closing this issue as "WON'T FIX" as technically, while related to Hercules, does not really describe any type of issue or problem that needs to be corrected/fixed.

Torinde commented 11 months ago

Thanks!

I'm trying to find something that can utilize the 122 keys of the IBM 3270 PC, so that the emulation of those extra keys in DOSBox can be tested.

So far I found the following software to be run inside DOSBox (booting a relevant DOS/Windows version):

But there is nothing for those programs to connect to, so that's why I'm asking if the Hercules emulator will accept such inputs.