Re: S/36 in Milwalkee

2016-11-05 Thread Jason T
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Mister PDP wrote: > This popped up on the VCF yesterday and I have been talking with the guy > and am going to go pick it up on Sunday, I will be picking up the computer > and the software and hopefully all the manuals too. I am going to archive I had written to ow

Re: S/36 in Milwalkee (also ebay has one)

2016-11-05 Thread jim stephens
On 11/5/2016 3:40 PM, Paul Berger wrote: On 2016-11-05 4:07 PM, Al Kossow wrote: On 11/5/16 11:24 AM, Jason T wrote: I'm guessing it's far more due to IBM having never released anything close to technical documentation on the architecture S/32 - 36 ar probably more expensive, there is a 36

Re: S/36 in Milwalkee

2016-11-05 Thread Paul Berger
On 2016-11-05 4:07 PM, Al Kossow wrote: On 11/5/16 11:24 AM, Jason T wrote: I'm guessing it's far more due to IBM having never released anything close to technical documentation on the architecture S/32 - 36 are fairly well documented. It's just non-trivial to do the work and would require som

Re: S/36 in Milwalkee

2016-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
oh, and FWIW the 'monitor' you need is a Twinax terminal. They are a bit more comomon than coax ones and seem to be less desirable. On 11/5/16 12:07 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 11/5/16 11:24 AM, Jason T wrote: >> I'm guessing >> it's far more due to IBM having never released anything close to

Re: S/36 in Milwalkee

2016-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/16 11:24 AM, Jason T wrote: > I'm guessing > it's far more due to IBM having never released anything close to > technical documentation on the architecture S/32 - 36 are fairly well documented. It's just non-trivial to do the work and would require someone to reverse-engineer with a mach

Re: S/36 in Milwalkee

2016-11-05 Thread Noel Chiappa
> I don't usually post here so if I am somehow posting wrong please tell > me. Nope, you're good. Good luck with the machine! And thanks ever so much for posting all the info that goes with it. Noel

Re: S/36 in Milwalkee

2016-11-05 Thread Mister PDP
Hello, I don't usually post here so if I am somehow posting wrong please tell me. This popped up on the VCF yesterday and I have been talking with the guy and am going to go pick it up on Sunday, I will be picking up the computer and the software and hopefully all the manuals too. I am going to a

Re: S/36 in Milwalkee

2016-11-05 Thread Jason T
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Ken Seefried wrote: > Noticed this on Nekochan: > http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16731198 This is making me a bit sad. Not over the fact I can't take on another computer the size of a small car - those days are likely behind me and for good reason