Re: Old Microfiche

2025-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
icrofiche would be available on bitsavers, > These are sheets of film with maybe 150 frames of very small images of > computer pages. > > > Tom Kern > > tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com > > On 2025-06-22 04:31 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > I would be interested in these. They w

Re: Old Microfiche

2025-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
I would be interested in these. They will be available to Al on bitsavers. (I can not see a private return address, by the way). -- Will On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM Thomas Kern <0041d919e708-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > In cleaning up very old collection of antiques, I found

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-23 Thread William Donzelli
I think we could find interested people that could get the stuff to good homes and Bitsavers. I would be interested in some of it - not all, as it does need to travel. I look forward to the pictures. -- Will On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:53 AM Robert Prins wrote: > > Hi all, > > My father worked fo

Re: Want to declutter? Here's a good home for ... stuff

2023-12-11 Thread William Donzelli
There are also some of us independents and other museums that take donations. I personally am currently looking for equipment, docs, software, and docs from the ES/9000 era and before. Likewise, the Binghamton, NY group Techworks! is on the lookout for any items related to Endicott. -- Will On

Re: my new z114

2022-05-29 Thread William Donzelli
On all of my machines, and likely most of the machines IBM made, there is an interlock that prevents changing the patchboard in any way. There is a complex hinge arrangement that closes the door before any connections are made, basically. Sure, a Sawzall would solve that, but that is not provided i

Re: Reliable source for slang term "noodle picker"?

2021-10-30 Thread William Donzelli
> I doubt there is an "official"source for this term, but it was a commonly > used slang term at the time. > > (This comment is from an old old timer who actually programmed and used a > noodle picker a long time ago. One thing we learned early: if possible, > keep datasets open and avoid the need

Re: Name those boxes

2020-08-17 Thread William Donzelli
I think that is the console switch unit. And yes, very likely a 1415. -- Will On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:08 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > > https://i.redd.it/kd2ebwoovbh51.jpg > > > > Best guess so far: 1415, console etc. for 1410. For extra credit, identify > small box on desk, too (not the phon

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
> Yes its true, but before you let a disk spin backwards, you checked the > fans in the logic gate, they were 3 ph too. Depending on how they spun > (clockwise or counterclockwise), you had the phases corrected. I never > spun up a drive that went backward using that technique. > And if it was say

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
> DC rules AC rules are harder, because of the extra Z. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: 3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread William Donzelli
All three phase IBM stuff from that era I have seen have phase rotation sensors, and will simply not go through the proper power sequence unless everything is fine. -- Will On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:35 AM Pommier, Rex wrote: > > Hi group, > > I have a light - probably trivia by now - question f

Re: An older device query - still using??

2020-05-13 Thread William Donzelli
e the highest priority. Any guidance as > to what is most likely to be of interest?, > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on beha

Re: An older device query - still using??

2020-05-13 Thread William Donzelli
logic manuals so that I can annotate > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3/source/STOWBLDL.ASM with register equates. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: An older device query - still using??

2020-05-13 Thread William Donzelli
Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > William Donzelli [wdonze...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 11:50 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSE

Re: An older device query - still using??

2020-05-13 Thread William Donzelli
Hey, that's my video. Go watch it! And remember, folks, I am always looking for this old stuff for the collection - mostly anything pre-Z (I set up that limit so I do not overcollect). Anything from a box of IBM indicator lights (thanks, recent donor!) to a 3090. I would make that happen. -- Wil

Re: 3270 terminals: CUT vs. DFT

2020-05-12 Thread William Donzelli
For that matter, are there any references to how many terminals IBM produced per model, from the 1015 to InfoWindows (or whatever was last)? I have always wondered in IBM was the largest maker of terminals ever. -- Will On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:45 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > I saw a lot more

Re: Here we go again;

2020-04-23 Thread William Donzelli
> CDC until STAR-100 Well, actually CDC until the bitter end. Cyber 180s, introduced in the early 1980s could do both. The bitter end was last year, so you IBM guys can finally breathe a sigh of relief with that bit of competition off the table. -- Will -

Re: COBOL help for NJ

2020-04-07 Thread William Donzelli
> Really? 40-year-old mainframes? That's close to impossible, and certainly > ridiculous. I'm sure many of you remember better than me, but 1980 was the > era of needing a megawatt or so to generate 20 MIPS or something like > that. If you could find the parts and the expertise to keep it going.

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: Documentation just takes up too much space | Computerworld

2020-03-19 Thread William Donzelli
Al "bitsavers" Kossow has a HUGE backlog of material to scan - something like 25 pallets of stuff or something crazy like that - so scanning and archiving, while constant, picks away at that pile depending on which way the wind blows and who is begging for what. Almost constant, I should say. Scan

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: Documentation just takes up too much space | Computerworld

2020-03-19 Thread William Donzelli
Almost a lone wolf - there are a few other people that contribute scans to bitsavers. The scans just have to be to Al's standards, basically. Still, Al is the 700 pound gorilla in the room. The other 100 pounds is at Wild Hare Computers, but that gorilla focuses on everything and anything Data Gen

Re: Caching Storage Control Ref Manuals

2020-02-09 Thread William Donzelli
> I’ve sort of become a computer storage historian for the Computer History > Museum and have a particular interest in the first IBM caching storage > controls, the 3880-11, 13, 21 and 23. They were followed by the 3990. IBM > distributed these manuals on CD-ROM usually called something like X

Re: Talking to 3270 terminals?

2020-01-15 Thread William Donzelli
> Does that mean that citations in wiki should use trailing-edge? If so, does > wiki know? Most bitsavers mirrors tend to be well synced, so it probably does not really matter. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: Talking to 3270 terminals?

2020-01-15 Thread William Donzelli
> Why trailing-edge rather than the bitsavers.org site? Things may have changed over the years, but Al and Tim decided to mainly point people towards Tim's servers, to keep Al's bandwidth down. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: DASD nostalgia

2019-07-23 Thread William Donzelli
> OK, you are referring to Seymours alleged drum tearing loose on a navy ship. > > Mea Culpa. I read this as you disputing that the Navy installed FirstRand 1 > on its ships. Just a misunderstand, pretty much. > There are a references to this model being a dancing behemoth, and that the > count

Re: DASD nostalgia

2019-07-22 Thread William Donzelli
hem in the telegram messaging systems. > > > > > > RON HAWKINS > > Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) > > m+61 400029610| t: +1 4085625415 | f: +1 4087912585 > > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf &

Re: DASD nostalgia

2019-07-22 Thread William Donzelli
> I'm thinking that just because one article says the story is urban legend, > there are more references that talk to the FirstRand I actually being > installed on a US Navy ship. I have no doubts about a Fastrand being on installed on a ship. I have my doubts about the spinning drum causing hav

Re: DASD nostalgia

2019-07-22 Thread William Donzelli
> We had a professor who was on the inspection team out of the Navy Yard. Said > the drum popped out and churned around like a 4000lb weed-eater for several > minutes. I believe Adm. Hopper was on the review board and after a short > synopsis. "Just stupid!" If you could dig up the original ins

Re: DASD nostalgia

2019-07-22 Thread William Donzelli
> Not myth. Primary source info, please! Otherwise, it is, as they even say in the video, a "legend". -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the me

Re: DASD nostalgia

2019-07-22 Thread William Donzelli
> I recall hearing about a UNIVAC shipboard computer where the drum ripped > loose from the deck when the ship was maneuvering quickly. This is a myth. Warships of the era (1960s/70s) are loaded with really big heavy spinning things (motor-generators and amplidynes), and they do not rip off the d

Re: Restoring IBM System/360 Model 20s and a System/370 Model 125

2019-05-20 Thread William Donzelli
One of the model 20s is more or less a parts car, probably used to keep the production one running. They intend to use it for the same purpose. The 125 seems only to be the processor, as there were no S/370 era peripherals with the lot, other than a 3504 with the top shaved off, apparently used as

Re: IBM Z Publications Archive site will replace the Library Server site

2019-04-26 Thread William Donzelli
> Could the entire sunsetted website and shelf+book contents be donated to > bitsavers.org or to cbttape.org for posterity? It seems very wrong to lose > easy access to so much computing history simply because the site has "quality > issues". Volunteers could and I suspect would gladly help re

Re: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank

2019-01-19 Thread William Donzelli
> Heh, later on we had a Formation 4000 PCM (0.25MIPS!) with a whopping 4MB, as > 64K RAM chips. At one point, a POR caused it to decide it had 16K chips > instead of 64K, and it was quite unhappy that it couldn't find the other > 48MB. Turned out to be a sloppy solder job that had shorted some

Re: COBOL Cowboys

2018-10-04 Thread William Donzelli
The upper picture is a model 75. -- Will On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:50 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > WTF? That doesn't look like and S/360 I've ever seen. 7030? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discu

Re: IBM Basic Counter Unit

2018-08-15 Thread William Donzelli
> Are you sure you aren't talking about the Systems Measurement Instrument > (SMI)? That was the only IBM hardware monitor available during the S360 era > as far as I know. It had a number of probes that you attached to various > points in the s/360. The SMI had a plug panel board that you wir

Re: Mainframe videos?

2018-04-08 Thread William Donzelli
For the break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowwNXKEt4k A good video to close with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ot5h08rKg -- Will On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Mike Beer wrote: > Hi, > > TAPES: > UNIVAC TAPE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KuoZ6cades > Overland: https://www.youtu

Re: Computer History Museum IBM Wish List

2018-01-16 Thread William Donzelli
Yes, there are indeed museums that would be interested in looking over what you have, to see if you have something that would fit into the collections. By all means, yes, let the Computer History Museum have a chance at them. They are in my opinion the safest bet for the very long term. This bring

Re: Can anyone remember "drum" storage?

2017-12-20 Thread William Donzelli
Just a "Navy story". There have been comparably heavy (and often faster spinning) motor-generators on ships since the 1930s, and they did not have problems. That, and a ship being tossed in a storm subjects those heavy rotating machines to worse forces. -- Will On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:12 PM, P

Re: Can anyone remember "drum" storage?

2017-12-20 Thread William Donzelli
While not an actual rotating chunk of metal ("the drum"), there were solid state units that certainly looked like one. The way to get high density solid state memory back in the very early 1970s was to use MOS shift registers (1024 bits on one chip!) that constantly circulated the data. No random a

Re: ES/9000 Console Cable

2017-12-19 Thread William Donzelli
Thanks, I do not know why it did not return those results for me before? -- Will On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Norbert Friemel wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:13:29 -0500, William Donzelli wrote: > >>I suppose I should ask if anyone out there has this manual? It seems >>

Re: ES/9000 Console Cable

2017-12-19 Thread William Donzelli
I suppose I should ask if anyone out there has this manual? It seems to be gone for the archive. -- Will On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Parwez Hamid wrote: > Manual is GA24-4187-04 > > Regards > Parwez > > -- > For IBM-MAIN su

Re: ES/9000 Console Cable

2017-12-19 Thread William Donzelli
Great. thanks! -- Will https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon"; target="_blank">https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif"; alt="" width="46" h

Re: ES/9000 Console Cable

2017-12-19 Thread William Donzelli
Good information, thanks! What manual is this from? I will need to start looking for it (I got very little documentation with the system). -- Will https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon"; target="_

Re: ES/9000 Console Cable

2017-12-18 Thread William Donzelli
2-4 > > > > Carmen Vitullo > > - Original Message ----- > > From: "William Donzelli" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 1:27:37 PM > Subject: Re: ES/9000 Console Cable > > I do not think they called them HMCs back

Re: ES/9000 Console Cable

2017-12-18 Thread William Donzelli
token ring network > > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2ba4122bfe6d689198525666e005d3c9f&aid=1 > > > this may help > > > > Carmen Vitullo > > - Original Message - > > From: "William Donzelli" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.

ES/9000 Console Cable

2017-12-18 Thread William Donzelli
Quick question: On the small ES/9000s (9221-150), how exactly does the console cable connect to the processor? Parallel port from the PC (apparently S/390 and 9370 are like this)? -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again

2017-11-30 Thread William Donzelli
> Famously, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. said around 1950 "Nobody's going to buy > computers. The whole world will need about four of them." This poor mangled quote... Watson was specifically referring to one specific model of machine, not computers in general. -- Will

Re: City of Poughkeepsie destroyed by mysterious events

2017-06-30 Thread William Donzelli
> Probably old news, but there's a graphic novel out called Spill Zone > that's set in the ruins of a Chernobyl-like Poughkeepsie destroyed by, > well who knows - I haven't read it yet. Inspired by real life IBM Kingston. -- Will --

Re: ES/9000 microcode

2017-06-14 Thread William Donzelli
No, the console is an IBM PC750 (I think an early Pentium machine), so just about any VGA or XGA tube will work. I assume the original console was a PS/2 of some flavor. -- Will On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:01 PM, Edward Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > What was th

Re: ES/9000 microcode

2017-06-14 Thread William Donzelli
; Will, > I have a guy that can service your equipment should you need it. He is based > out of Chattanooga so his preference would be to talk to you over the phone, > determine the problem and ship you parts. > > Tony Thigpen > > > William Donzelli wrote on 06/14/2017 09:49

Re: ES/9000 microcode

2017-06-14 Thread William Donzelli
So the ES/9000 is mostly in its new home. I took a roadtrip to inspect and prep the machine for shipment, and ended up taking the processor and DASD cabinets home. The console and tape are quite safe - now I need to get that stuff backed up and verified. Anyway, I did not get much in the way of do

Re: ES/9000 microcode

2017-06-01 Thread William Donzelli
> First, congrats, and welcome to the "basement mainframe club"...it's quiet > exclusive. :) I have been part of the club for years! The Cybers outnumber the IBMs here, but we don't talk about them on this list. > Second, a running ES/9000 is crazy-hard to come by; so that's a great score! I wa

Re: ES/9000 microcode

2017-06-01 Thread William Donzelli
715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white > !important; } Hey Will, > I am curious...What is your OS running in your big iron?Dan > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 7:19 PM, William Donzelli > wrote: &

Re: ES/9000 microcode

2017-06-01 Thread William Donzelli
> From my memory, there were 2 or 3 major levels of 9221 microcode that was > released and each major release had updates (MCLs). The problem is that even > if you had a could find the base 9221 microcode that would work with a > system, the microcode for a specific system includes files that a

ES/9000 microcode

2017-05-31 Thread William Donzelli
So this idiot just purchased an 9221 system from Tennessee (apparently it was still in service two years ago, and is in wonderful condition), and I made damn sure that the console with the IMPL tape was included. I even tracked down the machine's former admin just to be sure. I am going to tell him

Re: Old hardware

2017-04-18 Thread William Donzelli
Just on Saturday, the 1401 at Binghamton's Center for Technology and Innovation was powered up for the first time in about 25 years. The fun lasted about 20 minutes before one of the power supplies shut the machine down, but not before we verified successful reads and writes to the core. We did not

Re: Fujitsu Mainframe Vs IBM mainframe

2017-02-23 Thread William Donzelli
I suppose I should chime in an modify my occasional plea for vintage manuals, documentation, and software. This stuff for the Japanese machines is very thin on the ground. The computer museums in Japan (check out the IPSJ website, by the way, when you have time) really do not have much at all, nor

Re: S/390 G6 SE Driver Disk

2017-02-22 Thread William Donzelli
> Perhaps against the advice of others, I'm considering getting an S/390 G6 > without the SE's. I know without them, it's a paperweight. However, my > curiosity has lead me to wonder - can ANY S/390 G6 SE driver disk be used to > restore a blank SE, or is it serial-linked? In the case of it b

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

2017-01-13 Thread William Donzelli
(mostly dumb trivia follows) > Anyone ever play with fanfold paper tape? As far as I know, IBM products "never"* used fanfold paper tape, but rather spools. The 1620 had a big paper tape reader, as did the 1130 and 1800 minicomputers. Interesting, when the System/7 came out, IBM just rebadged ASR

Re: 3800 printers

2016-12-13 Thread William Donzelli
> We know that as of a few years ago there were still functioning 3800s. People > were buying up the remaining supply of toner on Ebay. However, since formal > support ended years ago, and the last functioning machine in our lab was > decommissioned, we have no information on where any working 3

3800 printers

2016-12-12 Thread William Donzelli
Does anyone know of any 3800 laser printers still in service? Or not in service but available? -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: IN

Re: Fwd: Religion provides statistical proof of the Creation of our civilization. This is .. really ... the Apocalypse. Today, see Eden and Exodus in superposition.

2016-03-27 Thread William Donzelli
> While many IBM-MAIN members including myself do believe in God, this > discussion list is NOT about religion, but about mainframes. God runs a Unisys MCP shop, anyway. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-15 Thread William Donzelli
> I've seen a photo of the actual bug Grace had used to coin the phrase. Yes, the moth was real, but the issue is that she did not coin the phrase. It was well known in the engineering world. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-15 Thread William Donzelli
No, she did not. The term "bug", relating to flaws and errors in a circuit*, shows up a fair amount in 1930s ham radio literature, for example. * "bug" also applies to automatic Morse keys, of course. -- Will On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > Was watching NCIS Los Angeles

Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months - beat that, readers!

2016-01-14 Thread William Donzelli
> Haven't there been stories quoted here about government agencies (Social > Security, DMV, VA) using 20 and 30 year old equipment? Machines that have run for 20 or 30 years are not as rare as one might think. There are still a few CDC machines in real service today, for example - and when did the

Re: Know any IBM CEs' in Phoenix - vintage or otherwise

2015-11-30 Thread William Donzelli
>>Is there any obscure lore about this machine I was thinking about this specific machine. Each 729 has a no smoking label in a different language, which is a bit unique. Perhaps someone out there might drop a clue, like knowing a 1401 shop that had CE that smoked five packs a day. -- Will -

Know any IBM CEs' in Phoenix - vintage or otherwise

2015-11-30 Thread William Donzelli
OK, it is a long shot here, but hey, I get to help with restoring a 1401 system... Is there any obscure lore about this machine with the no smoking tags (zoom in on the picture of the 729s)? We can use any leads you guys might dig up. - Will We're looking to find someone who might recognize t

Re: Privately owned mainframes (Was Re: I just bought an IBM z890)

2015-11-19 Thread William Donzelli
> For those interested in owning a real mainframe, we do have some MP3000s, > some z890s, and some z9s that we would sell that are stored in Chattanooga. Anything older? > The z boxes would make great heaters in the winter. Just put one in the > basement and power it up. :-) Yes, that is the pla

Re: Earlier than a z9?

2015-11-19 Thread William Donzelli
> Those HUGE DASDs are 3380s, I believe, with the sideways belt > drive.Yeah, they're a little louder than a laptop drive. But no > worries; you don't really hear them over the background A/C noise. I am still on the search for a 3380/3880 set. > I don't know about 3380s, but earlier IBM DASD oft

Re: Earlier than a z9?

2015-11-19 Thread William Donzelli
A 4300 system was recently decommissioned out West, and the system was broken apart. I think the processor and DASD went to a collector. The card handling equipment will be coming east to me - real S/360 era stuff that still works. It seems the 4300 line were perhaps IBM's best machines - they nev

Re: OT (was: Privately owned mainframes)

2015-11-09 Thread William Donzelli
> (Fact checking is left to the interested reader.) While 8086s are not by any stretch of the imagination scarce, the specific 8086 based card that NASA needs (I think Multibus?) is fairly scarce, but show up on Ebay from time to time. -- Will

Re: Privately owned mainframes (Was Re: I just bought an IBM z890)

2015-11-09 Thread William Donzelli
> Apparently a man bought a mainframe (Cray 1?) and the US Congress was not > happy with it. It seemed they don't like that individuals may own a > supercomputers because they feared that it could be misused [1] to threaten > the government's military computers or so goes the story. > > He was e

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-08 Thread William Donzelli
> First of all, many congratulations on your $237 acquisition! You've got an > interesting machine, a machine that figured prominently in mainframe > history as the first genuinely "small" 64-bit mainframe -- Cough..cough..cough..Cyber 930..cough cough.. -- Will -

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-06 Thread William Donzelli
Barf. 3290 or bust. -- Will On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > 3174? If it has a Token Ring connector you could connect a Apple ][ > with a token ring card as a master console. > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Connor Krukosky > wrote: >> On 11/6/2015 3:10 PM, Richard Pini

Re: 1403 at 60Hz

2015-07-29 Thread William Donzelli
> As I understood it at the time, larger S/360 and S/370 also > used motor-generator power supplies, though I don't know the > output frequency. The higher frequency means less filtering. Generally 415 Hz. Why this odd number is beyond me. The Hitachi clones also used 415 Hz. > But yes, you can

Re: IBM 1751

2014-11-25 Thread William Donzelli
eer/comphist/ibmmodel.txt > > 1715 -IBM Digital Display Unit > > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:46 PM, William Donzelli wrote: >> Perhaps this might ring a bell in someones head. >> >> Does anyone know what an IBM 1751 Control and Switching Unit is, and &g

IBM 1751

2014-11-25 Thread William Donzelli
Perhaps this might ring a bell in someones head. Does anyone know what an IBM 1751 Control and Switching Unit is, and what is was used for? -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Amdahl UTS manual

2014-08-26 Thread William Donzelli
>> That sounds good to me. But, me being me, I would caution your friend >> in one regard. That manual is most likely copyrighted. If it is, then >> scanning it and uploading it _might_ result in prosecution. Especially >> if the copyright holder objects. Given today's litigious society, and >> the

Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories

2014-03-06 Thread William Donzelli
> To commemorate the 50th anniversary of S/360 I wrote a blog that many of you > may have seen already but just in case you missed it: > > http://butmostlyaboutcats.blogspot.com/2014/03/mainframe-memories.html Very nice, thank you. One thing I noted was the bit about the colors - how each upgrad

Re: Clemson Univ. Data Center Tour (1980)

2013-10-18 Thread William Donzelli
> Starring an 8-mb IBM 3033, 3330 disk, reel tape, punch cards, a liquid-ink > plotter and a 1403 printer that plays Tiger Rag! (at 9:30) Great video. I looks like the processor is just about the only real IBM gear there. The tape are STC, the 3350s are CDC, and the 3330s are from someone that I

Re: OT: Flossie ICT 1301 being rescued.

2013-10-18 Thread William Donzelli
> Thought some of us might be interested. > > http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/flossie-first-mass-produced-business-computer-rescued > > Something to point at and paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a > computer. THIS is a computer!" > > 5.5 tons, 6 meters by 7 meters. Take the article

Re: OT: Any of you old-timers have...

2013-04-16 Thread William Donzelli
> the SLT schematic for the clock module, part number 5803944, from a 360 model > 20? I've checked the usual suspects (IBM archives in GHQ and POK, the IBM > museum in Germany) -- any of our European friends have any suggestions of > other places to try? Annoyingly, my book jumps from 5803938 t

Re: Relative price of S/370 AP and MP systems

2013-04-10 Thread William Donzelli
>>I have a Fiscal year 1978 ADP Price List here - what specific model >>would you like me to look up? > > 3033 (3031 and 3032 if they have AP versions) > > 3158-3 > > 3168-3 > > I'd also like title, copyright data and URL if possible. So I have some time to look into this now, but the listing is f

Re: Relative price of S/370 AP and MP systems

2013-04-05 Thread William Donzelli
>>I have a Fiscal year 1978 ADP Price List here - what specific model >>would you like me to look up? > > 3033 (3031 and 3032 if they have AP versions) > > 3158-3 > > 3168-3 Sorry, I was pulled away out of town. I will try to get to this next week. -- Will ---

Re: Relative price of S/370 AP and MP systems

2013-03-30 Thread William Donzelli
> Does anybody have an IBM sales manual or other document that shows the > price difference between AP and MP for S/370 and 303x systems? I need > a citation for the wiki article on asymmetric multiprocessors. Thanks. I have a Fiscal year 1978 ADP Price List here - what specific model would you li

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-07 Thread William Donzelli
> Mainframes? The 8100 was a series of small machines that grew out of > the 3790. They were no more mainframes than their competitor, the S/1. > Perhaps you are thinking of DPPX/370, which ran on the 9370. It is debatable (although maybe we shouldn't here!) - 8100 was a DPD product, not GSD like

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-06 Thread William Donzelli
> 360s, 370s, etc ... have been microcode implemented on variety of other > kinds of engines. circa 1980 there was an effort to replace the wide > variety of internet microprocessors used for controllers, low&mid range > 370s, the planned as/400 replacement for s/38, etc ... all with 801/risc > Ili

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-29 Thread William Donzelli
> So if I start posting about art or metaphysics or other random topics, that > makes it OK? It seems that pretty much all of his posts are very IBM mainframe related. And, a little history lesson never hurts anyone. I have nothing more to add. -- Will --

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-29 Thread William Donzelli
> Lynn: This has nothing to do with EC12, or top-mounted cables. Are you > generating these posts programmatically? Please stop if so. You have some > interesting things to contirbute, but random word-matching doesn't qualify. I, for one, welcome his posts, even if they can be a bit tangential. -

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-05 Thread William Donzelli
> I may still have a copy of the "Wooden Paddle". I also have various > old 1401< IBM 705 Autocoder and Honywell 800 manuals among others. > When I pass on can I just tell my heirs and assigns to just pack them > all up and send them to the Computer History Museum? I think CHM has some sort of of

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-03 Thread William Donzelli
> Is CHM willing to scan donations for bittsavers? I've got hundreds of > manuals that I'm willing to donate if someone will, pick them up, scan > them and do the OCR. CHM and bitsavers are sort of joined at the hip. Al Kossow's hip, specifically. Yes, we would love to have the scans - it is just

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-03 Thread William Donzelli
> Pehaps he could send it to the Computer History Museum, on the > condition that it not be used until the copyrights expire? As one of Al Kossow's little minions, I say yes, please. CHM works with IBM and the other computer companies, and they do get commercial software out into the public, usua

Re: Odd request: anyone know of where I might find a 4361 or a 4381?

2012-07-30 Thread William Donzelli
> Totally off the wall request, but I've been contacted by a museum to try to > locate a 4361 or 4381 CPU and console terminal. Slight preference for the > 4361 because of the integrated 3270 and ICA adapters, but either will do. This will be tough. It seems the big purge of 43xx hardware from t

Re: old tapes and nostalgia

2012-07-02 Thread William Donzelli
> I find myself in possession of some old IBM tapes. > Of no use to me, but maybe someone has "reel" tape drives > (ie, not "cart"). All have labels of 9T, 1600bpi density. > > 1) Scientific Subroutine Package, V3M0, dated 9-19-74. > > 2) OS360, Rel 21.8, dated 10-08-74. > > 3) OS360, Rel 21.8,

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread William Donzelli
Sad news. Over the past couple of years, he sent me a few of his older manuals and such. > They have OS/360 manuals that they were going to throw out. I am looking for > someone in the Chicago area could possibly stop by his house in Woodridge and > take possession, at least temporarily, of them