Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>This one strains my brain for details, but way back in the classic days,
>there was a product available whereby the 3000 would "emulate" an IBM 3705
>communcations controller so that you could have a remote 3270 cluster
>controller connected directly to the 3000 (via an INP card as I recall)
>over a synchronous communications link.  You could then use the 3000 from
>your basic IBM 327x terminal.
>
>I want to say this was called MTS/3000 but I could well be wrong; I tend to
>only remember the products we actually used :-)
 
Don't know if this is the same product, but SNA IFM makes your 3k look
like a RJE station to an IBM.  Your 3k terminals can be terminals to the
IBM and you can "punch" and "print" card images, submit batch jobs, etc.
I can't remember if IBM terminals could get to the 3k...
 
Chris