A similar thing is in use for mainframe applications to this very day to try to "modernize" them. Basically fancy screen-scrapers that turn everything into for

A similar thing is in use for mainframe applications to this very day to try to "modernize" them. Basically fancy screen-scrapers that turn everything into forms and menus and fields, they do have their use. (In the industrial case, it's for things like text entry and mainframe applications to be made more "touchscreen friendly" for modern industrial devices and modernize them to the modern metal you have to use.)