I suppose I should chime in an modify my occasional plea for vintage manuals, documentation, and software.
This stuff for the Japanese machines is very thin on the ground. The computer museums in Japan (check out the IPSJ website, by the way, when you have time) really do not have much at all, nor does bitsavers or the Computer History Museum. If you have any you no longer need, please consider having bitsavers archive it. I can funnel it towards Al. And personally, I need *anything* for the Hitachi M180 aka National AS/6. -- Will On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:16 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't decide whether this thread is fascinating or stultifying. I guess > that means it's fascinating! > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Andy Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >My €0.02: >> >There are (were) both: hardware and OS software. >> > >> >Software: IBM OS/390, Fujitsu MSP, Hitachi VOS and AFAIK Siemens (don't >> >remeber the name) >> >The clones were very similar, but not the same. >> > >> >Hardware: you could run IBM OS/390 on Hitachi or Amdahl machine, it was >> >both feasible, and legal (allowed by IBM). >> >(in the older days the number of HW clones was higher: ITEL, Olivetti, >> >Comparex, etc.) >> > >> >-- >> >Radoslaw Skorupka >> >Lodz, Poland >> > ... >> >> I believe Siemens at one time sold a system derived from the RCA Spectra. >> >> I encountered the RCA Spectra in the guise of an ICL (English Electric) >> System 4. I wrote assembly code for that which from my point of view was >> identical to S/360 assembly. >> >> The operating system, about which I knew very little (and now recall even >> less), must have been quite different because the machines had several >> interrupt states each with its own set of GP registers. No chance of >> running an IBM operating system on one of those. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
