The "boards" were maybe 1 inch thick, with holes in them. You put an
overlay over the board (depending on what you were programming) and
inserted wires between the holes based on the overlays. My father
programmed these things for a bank on Long Island NY. The wires were of
various lengths depending on how far they had to reach. They were mabe
12inches by 12 inches, and went into a receiver, and then were snapped
into the machine. After I went to 360 Common I/O school, I went to work
for Sorbus for awhile and had to deal with them there, but I never could
program them.
Doug Fuerst
------ Original Message ------
From: "Grant Taylor" <0000023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu
Sent: 29-May-22 15:23:01
Subject: Re: my new z114
On 5/29/22 12:26 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
You could theoretically add wires without removing the board. I've never seen
it done and I suspect that it's not safe.
I'm now getting the impression that the wires were sort of latched into the
board and the plugboard tool was used to unlatch wires for insertion and
removal.
The idea of plugs & wires being latched into the board makes more sense as far as
inserting & removing the entire board from the system. As if the board is simply a
passive frame that holds the plugs & wires in place while the actual jack for the plugs
remains in the system.
I have no idea if this is remotely correct, but it does make a LOT more sense
to me than removing and inserting boards with a bunch of jack in them.
-- Grant. . . .
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