ObBentPins FWIW, I've never seen anybody re-plugging a board without first removing it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tom Brennan [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2022 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: my new z114 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1HePYMkzZTi2l-hDJc66sbW_YVzeHHv60Ur5YKodHYHHzCmKzQu6D0EhoeZvZegjtx4dugHaE3NS92VDlkncj5oTmlTnPv-zx5ZiCc1tir1SBQ4xI03Uzi_wIiAUmDCunpRb1a2dBkUjTAsAQyPE9wt7HKWne8T8-FFvEVJadrKq3NXPf3n0NhYvYRw--Y3yW0kA6P3p0N-p_jo7XcF66-UXoC6mkss45_DoqoIhMRNivhqWb3COj2fLmK4HM4GuSSNXOJd_UIVTTnjCrZnnuIQuMaNVIifiNdbqfF9fCGRV6sFGtMf29TxTup5g6V6dwx_WDLqZveBWYJ-Ylm2AKmRJTJDsUNRdQ48yuJ7aJmG_QVSc8_jqyy4Xu7O0iY3dsSH_5Fb5OJalYxDfqcdQ-9UmwZujG-wwu46KzfeLXvUhGRTDzpNL667K-AaFVhXuD/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.columbia.edu%2Fcu%2Fcomputinghistory%2F407.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://secure-web.cisco.com/1VWsB1ydF79TMLtRRAAZ9bXarsdE2Om34mdcolR87C60-q0PalZV91vb_fNJ7fMY2Gax9wF-ZmsYkQv6P_3aSizIJTHtfp6-7oSWDh8ryBMlsvTYo9ZPjY5rDzI_zR-dL0wuY-LkYPI-0dnnGiWn7SJ8kwwJ-AiGbdnFWBF4RLi62CSH91j408wlUJvy89PUfmZWq2evL-xDNv9JRbBWlvb1PkQY_Xm9Ch1d6ks6bBUdHiMKSdkO7K95pq6Wsi9M84UsJm4nhEakUzFysHpMqfjj6iPz2PDnlFi7uCzPdZOuy1z5TR1cGEOh-jD1rB-sY8l9NjsqHFyQWGPh_ZsrqXsnBd65BeqYkqYPrNHWTZpf2-Ihbz_OUMMEd-CY6gd0ArzgJop05VXguCumqu3WzFMyo4Wc_FJSNbigoY_dII5Q5mbDQOhG-mMIg0jTGou6G/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.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://secure-web.cisco.com/13hmC2qVPVF4Wt21Osx_mKV0x02wIFWtc38RFTMlvgXMQKDb3FLIuYEBHj4pK-E2nKIggJM51rJeKgSGCa43DtrK1OZDbQRaN9yBMBxCyG7T7ZqI5uSUl6_xsIz_pWWJKx4A25-oF-iGZjmhhy-QHvXuGGWczb5mu0AaH_LRfAAEvMKFCIBbJ-qw2VApbrVTN23c63BQqXXchn2ITiaHqhXFkQDnO_-142JF4_iuhjR7NXxhUUHrlTR3OaXZuhRA-TLA5pMKr0LeoGNOvPnY7S-7GNpLAvkAgvdt0bBi_yjvqdcmsuEkq_Z2YKCYsw31MvKKMkSpof9htdQz5Rct5A9gHUW9YL4jA7DlZRoj45IoOorDVx9adM-0dhEvQ3vZNRTZxsnE8yZ7hYM7JtWz8ExXtxQVvMbAKLyft9m2EinIQq6_uDsQTn2PuVRNPw9Y4/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funsoft.com%2F> >> System/390 on Intel-Based Servers >> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1VWsB1ydF79TMLtRRAAZ9bXarsdE2Om34mdcolR87C60-q0PalZV91vb_fNJ7fMY2Gax9wF-ZmsYkQv6P_3aSizIJTHtfp6-7oSWDh8ryBMlsvTYo9ZPjY5rDzI_zR-dL0wuY-LkYPI-0dnnGiWn7SJ8kwwJ-AiGbdnFWBF4RLi62CSH91j408wlUJvy89PUfmZWq2evL-xDNv9JRbBWlvb1PkQY_Xm9Ch1d6ks6bBUdHiMKSdkO7K95pq6Wsi9M84UsJm4nhEakUzFysHpMqfjj6iPz2PDnlFi7uCzPdZOuy1z5TR1cGEOh-jD1rB-sY8l9NjsqHFyQWGPh_ZsrqXsnBd65BeqYkqYPrNHWTZpf2-Ihbz_OUMMEd-CY6gd0ArzgJop05VXguCumqu3WzFMyo4Wc_FJSNbigoY_dII5Q5mbDQOhG-mMIg0jTGou6G/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funsoft.com >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
