Howdy,

Recently I've developed an interest in mainframe's and I've been playing with VM/370 and MVS.

One of the names out their for mainframe tips/tricks is moshix (on youtube), and he's just written a 3270 BBS.

I have it running on my server, so if you are curious, come by and check it out.

Its not running under VM/370 or MVS - its actually a go binary, so its running on linux - but it would be cooler if it run under a mainframe os.

3270.bbs.dege.au port 3270

You'll need a 3270 emulator - ZOC works well - otherwise c3270 on linux, and I'm sure there is a 3270 emulator for windows if that is your platform of choice.


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Recently I've developed an interest in mainframe's and I've been playing with VM/370 and MVS.

One of the names out their for mainframe tips/tricks is moshix (on youtube), and he's just written a 3270 BBS.

As a mainframe developer (retired), this is of interest. I was thinking of trying to write a "skin" for synchronet (like the PC Board and Renegade
ones) that would look like a mainframe system but have never got around to
it.

I have it running on my server, so if you are curious, come by and check it out.

Its not running under VM/370 or MVS - its actually a go binary, so its running
on linux - but it would be cooler if it run under a mainframe os.

3270.bbs.dege.au port 3270

I will need to check this out!


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I just checked it out. Really cool!! Such a different exp than other BBS I've been to.

Side note, I had to log out twice to disconnect. I logged out at the menu and then that dropped me to a READY prompt where I disconnected again. Is that how it's suppose to be?


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Re: 3270 BBS
By: Dumas Walker to DEON on Tue Aug 19 2025 09:56 am

As a mainframe developer (retired), this is of interest. I was thinking of trying to write a "skin" for synchronet (like the PC Board and Renegade ones that would look like a mainframe system but have never got around to it.

I have a bunch of OS/400 terminal screen shots, been wanting to do the same thing. I was hoping the Synchronet Light Bar menu would be a good basis for that.
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