alt.hn

2/7/2026 at 6:39:16 PM

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

by bri3d

2/13/2026 at 5:53:18 PM

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!

by dare944

2/13/2026 at 7:29:44 PM

Can sell this to Costco and best buy

by farklenotabot

2/8/2026 at 6:13:21 AM

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

by skissane

2/13/2026 at 5:00:22 PM

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

by uxhacker

2/13/2026 at 7:12:05 PM

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.

by kev009

2/13/2026 at 4:41:57 PM

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by unit149