Re: Every day emulation

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those in nostalgia land 5250 emulation was spawned by software
written by Joe Frank (josephgfrank.org) for a 5280 which was a key to
disk machine that happened to be based on the intel 8080 chip and used a
 pgm system called DE RPG (data entry).  Joe wrote some assembler code
that allowed this machine to become a 5251 mod 12 to a S34/6/8.  That
was the first "5250 emulation" ever built.

When the IBM PC was introduced running on the same chip set Joe moved
his software over to that box along with an SDLC card.  It was great.
We could suddenly use PC's as remote terminals to a S34.  My first PC
cost $5,000 and it had a 10MB hard drive which kicked ass over the dual
360kb floppy systems.

Joe then wrote a file transfer pgm called ETU (emulator transfer
utility) which is still used today.

Jerry