Old industrial stuff can live until new management arrives.
I have a hardware/firmware product that's still supported today, From 1988.


On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 10:34 PM ship--- via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Yes the IBM 1800 was the industrial version of the 1130 family.
>
> I recall meeting someone who had seen in person the 1800 which
> controlled/sequenced the traffic lights in Manhattan midtown area in NYC
> through the 1980s or later.
>
> So a real time controller.  I had not heard of a real time OS for 1130
> family, thanks for the info.  Hope someone might find a distribution deck
> for it would be fun to add the instructions to the simulator at
> ibm1130.org
>
> I have a special fondness for those as my very first (in high school)
> assembler real time interrupt driven code was a standalone punch for the
> card reader.
>
> The A26-2918-3 Functional Characteristics is still a really nice read
> (available at archive.org).
>
> -Robert
>

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