RE: ISO: Honeywell DPS-6 things
Wow. GCOS-6 and GCOS-8 … that takes me back. Great systems. Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Zane Healy Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 7:31 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: ISO: Honeywell DPS-6 things > On Jan 18, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: > > So I have this DPS-6 taking up space in my basement right now and I thought > I'd put out a call again to see if anyone has anything at all related to > it. I'd like to get the system running but I'm missing: > > - Mass storage controllers (of any type -- floppy, tape, hard drive) > - GCOS 6 operating system media (in any format, any version, etc.) > > If anyone has any hardware lying around, or GCOS 6 media (or knows anyone > who might), drop me a line. > > Alternately, if there's anyone out there who has a need for a DPS-6 parts > machine, let me know... > > Thanks as always! > - Josh I’ve only known of one other person with a DPS-6, and that was (is?) Sellam. The hardware is virtually unobtainable, and sadly, I think GCOS or any other software might even be more difficult to obtain. I really wish someone could turn up a 25+ year old copy of GCOS-8, and get it running on an emulator, but don’t see that happening either. I know that the DPS-6 has been emulated for production systems. A lifetime ago I worked on both DPS-6 and DPS-8 systems running GCOS-6 and GCOS-8. Last I checked, Group Bull was still selling GCOS-8 systems, running on Itanium. Zane
RE: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference
Oh, no. Of course not. Perish the thought. Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Toby Thain Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 12:45 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference On 2017-01-23 5:16 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/23/2017 11:00 AM, Steven Maresca wrote: >> Just wanted to share an excerpted story just sent to me by a >> colleague, regarding an IBM 7074 supplying data to Java middleware, >> ultimately feeding a modern webapp stack: >> http://thenewstack.io/happens-use-java-1960-ibm-mainframe/ > > The 7074 was referred to as a "supercomputer". Can any decimal machine > really bear that title? > > The USAF used 7080s well into the 1980s--another decimal system. One of > the the reasons for doing so was a system implemented in 7080 COBOL with > miles and miles of undocumented Autocoder patches.No one person had > a full grasp of the resulting system and its nuances. Thank God this could not happen today! --T > > --Chuck > >
RE: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference
I dunno – there’s something about the sheep welcoming the 7070 that struck me funny. Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Chuck Guzis Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 4:01 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference On 01/25/2017 02:07 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > The 7070 was announced in Sept. 1958, but did not ship until April > 1960. According to IBM's DPD Chronology for 1959: "On August 3, DPD introduces the IBM Datacenter -- facilities in which customers rent the use of IBM 7070 systems by the hour and supply their own programmers and operators. DPD foresees a nationwide network of 25 to 30 Datacenters in major cities, with the first three located in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. " > The first IBM computing device to use transistors and no vacuum tubes > was the 608 calculator, shipped in December 1957. IBM's first > transistorized computers were the 7090 (36-bit scientific, > transistorized version of 709) shipped in November 1959, and the > 1401, shipped in early 1960, before the 7070. As a matter of fact, here's a 7070 on its way to an installation in Naples in 1959: https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2070.html And I *did* specify computer, not calculator with regard to transistors. So who you gonna believe--a photo taken in 1959 or some guy writing 27 years later saying it didn't exist? Perhaps they've got the 7070 confused with the 7074. --Chuck
