On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 11:00, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you are able to provide scans to bitsavers.org, you would be doing us
> all a favor.
>

If I had the tools Bitsavers and Google have to scan books by just flipping
the pages, I might have been willing to do so, but after having scanned
(and GIMP'ed) more than 3,000 of my hitchhiking notes over the past few
years, there's no way I would ever consider this, life too short.


> BTW, does the collection include the RPQ for negative index registers and
> table lookup equal on the 650?
>

The IBM codes for the stuff contained in these six binders are:

2841 Storage Control Unit-Stage 2, IBM Form 59119-0 US-Form Y26-4000-0
(Field Engineering Theory of Operation)
2030 Procssing Unit System/360 Model 30 (Field Engineering Theory of
Operation) Y24-3360-0
IBM Werk-Normen Band 7b SLT Medium Speed [30ns] Circuit Family (German,
August 1965)
Solid Logic Technology Component Circuits Z22-2798-1
Solid Logic Technology Power Supplies IBM Form 59 003-0 US 223-2799-9
Automatic Floating Decimal Arithmetic in the IBM650 (Preliminary edition)
Form 29-8594 (22-6284-1?)
650 MDDPM Additional Features Indexing Accumulators Floating Decimal
Arithmetic Advance Write-up Form 22-6258-0
Customer Engineering Training 650 Installation Procedures Data Processing
System 29-8667-1
Customer Engineering Training 650 Reference Manual Data Processing System
22-6316-1
IBM 650 Optional Features Test Performance Description Form 29-8781
650-407 Field Test Description 29-8668 (1/1/57)
650 Customer Engineering Manual of Instruction Form 22-6284-1

And not on the photos

Technical Report TR25.087 Method and Notation for the formal definition of
programming languages (IBM Lab Vienna)
Reference Manual Introduction to IBM Data Processing Systems F22-6517
Reference Manual Magnetic Tape Units A22-6589
Introduction to IBM System/360 Architecture Student Text C20-1667-2
Number Systems Student Text C20-1618-3
650-System Sequence & dataflow charts (partly hadwritten by my father, with
official(?) diagrams)

Robert
-- 
Robert AH Prins
robert(a)prino(d)org
The hitchhiking grandfather <https://prino.neocities.org/index.html>
Some REXX code for use on z/OS
<https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html>

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