Harry: To try and squelch a bit of misinformation here since the Internet never forgets, Funsoft was *not* spun off from IBM. It was founded independently and the software and hardware engineering roots were definitely not IBM.
Enzo can contact me concerning a FLEXCUB. No need if his z114 has no ESCON channels which would be a pre-req. A second unrelated intersection to your post relative to Columbia is a pic of my father: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/407.html We used the same pic when my family endowed a perpetual scholarship at armyscholarshipfoundation.org On Sat, 28 May 2022 16:50:07 +0000, Harry Wahl <harry_w...@hotmail.com> wrote: >Enzo, > >You may want to see if you can get a FlexCub which, with its PC Escon card, >will connect your z114 to a PC based platform and emulate every type of z114 >peripheral you could possibly use. > >Using standard Escon fiber cable, the z114 Escon connects directly to a PC >Card that is a mainframe channel adapter. Between the card's firmware and >specific PC programs in the one PC box you will be able to emulate all the >peripherals you will need. > >http://www.funsoft.com go to FlexCub white paper. > >Fundamental Software, a.k.a. Funsoft, was spun off from IBM, specifically from >their P/390 group. > >There are several other, similar vendors out there too. > (snippage) >P.S.S. Also, as a professor at Columbia University in NYC, I may be able to >get you access to Columbia's museum of IBM history, including the parts not >open to the public. >Fundamental Software, Inc.<http://www.funsoft.com/> >System/390 on Intel-Based Servers >www.funsoft.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
