ObTeratology There were 1-digit adders that you cascaded with board wiring. The 407 was not Turing complete, but it did have (very) limited conditional logic.
I was hoping that bitsavers had a copy of the 407 manual, but I couldn't find it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Enzo D'Amato [edam...@octechservices.org] Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2022 3:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: my new z114 The plug board history discussion here has been fascinating. Although I have always been interested in vintage computers, I have never done much research into the plug board type equipment. One of the biggest things I have always wondered about when it comes to the plug boards was where the processors in the system were. In the accounting machine, what did the actual addition and printing operations? ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Gary Eheman <ehe...@funsoft.com> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2022 10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: my new z114 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/1a_g58-4gi03euSQRJeNBiStK0U_dmArcvJDFGJkQOPdyxXEe7F_yNITxYU4wKPC5hikPFdGU_2ab6l9IuQHG2tpXvOrHWGZazvdLq49WxgcPf9H8W_jWvevA4WUZP4FLC-dpDcERgPHHbza-QMOKOxa3D8Dkp030rFRQJvOnGpD-dMcvFrX-zW9bD-bsMXQvvhC2ZtjJW88uQvIV2wIU-DvHzYLwsbCOHh1O_n6iaDCodfLrNjig9p2iyS_xyOLNQ0I1MjfqB9xIyBQQc00WIEb3zg_0wb0KaqmOR3Kt8t_IxcLsAfA4GfqUHjiTO4deql_W0zunM9tpVfxxc_LI323fLsHlLN4o1vxhqQ1W3RSUXHYSKH4r8N2kA1XJteHmk3tG23YNQYNby93OWp8D5Gxc1jVdldZa3463ZSClPa2C6PaM6dgobkTcCYiLyzjg/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 <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://secure-web.cisco.com/1y7XhNgo24lI-mV32z6hxMXZ08fAhnL-lnFbRbVt1U6aL2MRqQpFuajOXG63gowsMQNvnGJKrtrsw6SGs05Yb0DvoO1jVNgMFbnccCQRqYZfrQ6I7oG1wy-zG9ZQYPbVJ2xrAdqlx_R1kiosdWbd5o2jNyr6joj3N1BpQdpzQUbPwpIYrTd5Om_zBBoVqa9_ZAruoFXEvrFxA7GJqk5e1ATmgx24OvVVXtt8mySI0uUPkLg5nhatuhB1uv5PPbPmSKgu6L350DxIlDa11YG77pG3Fw_MeCL3if5RAU3q0pZRZogsT9e_WHRdw5WchdcRP6ssYEoeRqK5rPv90zzFLyRlmUWGsGu83SaUa6PV7HXdExyLPvKy2dKLA6uJnHzg-YLdVWO_9XrNrOEdwKIE2Zer7Brnn5S_XjjAQbK2-C55M3xmuNLtXmrvirDYv7XEx/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/1oNJQzZYGtvVX8Hq6ASEjRZUS1kIe87sr5kfBv5VJuzo1NBH78lmsQFt3HgrHP2C34Uv3-ivY92KO14qXRgM8EPrAAm-2qQqi73rasqZAw7hPqYpDnH7fLrrNfLAqvIZrfYN6RUN60S-P8oZ-vHKtW-Me5ezSy62seSQPjNqN6P9OeEPJGFK-zLGVmClirNjO8dkXpkj1jp3pwaKGVDE471npgG7018tSGnvpjALUjLxmjZzbLjQpDEt-ap27pfwUMVMbKPMOIQwS8FTBTttMZyRbCiwj9vGFxIl-A9VDPplhIf9ZFts5XY2bf_GUKCdJibIbaLQEIfNHugPigq1wuCxBtYyQIQiKflQxFd2g3eSXqGQeCcyOjnOiAV2NaGIl0Cjtodw03fgLtq5omMRGNiCITjJl_-arHYzd9ZgZ0_DFrSxg82XY6wFk2rvpDeBN/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funsoft.com%2F> >System/390 on Intel-Based Servers >http://secure-web.cisco.com/1y7XhNgo24lI-mV32z6hxMXZ08fAhnL-lnFbRbVt1U6aL2MRqQpFuajOXG63gowsMQNvnGJKrtrsw6SGs05Yb0DvoO1jVNgMFbnccCQRqYZfrQ6I7oG1wy-zG9ZQYPbVJ2xrAdqlx_R1kiosdWbd5o2jNyr6joj3N1BpQdpzQUbPwpIYrTd5Om_zBBoVqa9_ZAruoFXEvrFxA7GJqk5e1ATmgx24OvVVXtt8mySI0uUPkLg5nhatuhB1uv5PPbPmSKgu6L350DxIlDa11YG77pG3Fw_MeCL3if5RAU3q0pZRZogsT9e_WHRdw5WchdcRP6ssYEoeRqK5rPv90zzFLyRlmUWGsGu83SaUa6PV7HXdExyLPvKy2dKLA6uJnHzg-YLdVWO_9XrNrOEdwKIE2Zer7Brnn5S_XjjAQbK2-C55M3xmuNLtXmrvirDYv7XEx/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funsoft.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
