Yes, 1964, amazing. I remember, I must have some vintage IBM
training/instruction materials on the 360, 704 and FORTRAN programming
systems. This came from a long time computer professor who took these
courses in the early 1960s, Dr. William (Bill) M. Myers (University of
Montana)
It's a massive binder and contains hundreds of pages of official IBM
information, charts, brochures and notes. In very good condition, and
with original training documents for Northrop Aircraft Inc. in 1966.
see:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AwfIo3_FrdkRsD4Qz3X8aiNAdm1D1buj?usp=sharing
It also shows a full IBM system introduction handbook and Quick
Reference manual form 1964.
Check out the Northrop News-Venture Edition 1966 Northrop Aircraft Inc.
article on installation of an IBM360/64 system, where the training took
place.
As I 'm not so much into the System/360 and FORTRAN IV, if anyone is
interested, please let me know.
Thomas
On 10.04.2024 16:17, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 4/10/24 01:51, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, 2024-04-09 at 22:21 -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 4/9/24 22:03, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2024-04-09 8:53 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I had not realized the IBM 360 was 60 yrs. old this month. I
worked on
such
a computer in the late 60s in Toronto. What one could do with 8
Kbytes of
ram was remarkable!
Happy computing
Murray 🙂
Real time sharing, not a 16K PDP 8?
What model of a 360? 8K sounds a lot like a Model 20, which the
purists
may not consider to be a "real" member of the family.
I don't remember whether it was one of the docents at Haus zur
Geschichte der IBM Datenverarbeitung at Sindelfingen, or at the
Computer History Museum at Mountain View, who told me that IBM was
developing a machine to be designated 1480, as part of the 1401-1440-
1460-1410 series, with newer technology, roughly contemporaneously with
the 360. When IBM decided to put all its eggs in the 360 basket, The
1480 team somehow survived and produced either the 360/20 or 360/25. An
8k machine would be a bit weird in this series, since 1410 was already
100k. Does anybody know more details about this?
The 360/20 had only halfword instructions, no float, no char strings.Â
But, main storage was 16 bits wide.
The 360/30 only had byte-wide memory, and the register file was in a
separately addressed part of main storage. The 360/25 was a very
interesting concept. The microcode was in the top 16 KB of main
storage, and 360 and other instruction set emulations could be loaded
from cards. The boot loader for the emulators was in the top 16 bytes
(or maybe words) of main storage.
Jon
