I decided to explore the possibility to pursue my notebook
to think it's a mainframe. I admit I've no previous experience
with mainframes. So please take this as a light exercise for fun in
the area of retro-computing voyage.

I'm currently on Ubuntu Linux. For the sake of simplicity I skipped
the path of compiling everything from scratch. And there were just
several simple commands that brought the emulator together with
GUI to life.

I used following commands:

apt-get install hercules herculesstudio c3270.

At the first try I just ran the herculesstudio as root and prepared a simple mainframe with one device - the terminal. Then just ran the machine.

And connected to localhost:3270 using the c3270 (Mainframe connect emulator).

Something like this was the result:

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HHH HHH The S/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture
HHH HHH Emulator
HHH HHH
HHH HHH EEEE RRR CCC U U L EEEE SSS
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH E R R C U U L E S
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH EEE RRR C U U L EEE SS
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH E R R C U U L E S
HHH HHH EEEE R R CCC UU LLLL EEEE SSS
HHH HHH
HHH HHH
HHH HHH My PC thinks it's a MAINFRAME

Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, and others

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Best regards

Miken

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