"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. "
Ummm ... not possible. To reprogram a board, you had to take a special IBM tool and push the wire up thru the bottom of the board! Kinda hard to do when the board is in the machine :) Growing up, my dad had a job as an IBM CE. One of his product lines was the 6400 accounting machine. Great fun for a kid on the weekend to play with a plugboard and wires! https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102732361 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102645466 Joe On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 12:00 PM Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
