Enzo mentioned he has a couple of ESCON cards, so he's still in the
running. Great pic of your dad - I've never seen a picture of one of
those wire boards being worked on and always assumed you did the work
while it was in the machine. On a table looks a whole lot easier.
On 5/29/2022 7:42 AM, Gary Eheman wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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
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