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 >
