He originally had well thousands of boxes of cards but I had to get rid of several, mostly because they had deteriorated so much plus I had donated hundreds of boxes that made up (I think all of) cp/67 (which I think later became cp/370) to MIT and I gave away all of the 96 column cards (1,000+ boxes) that made up the original System/3 OS and literally thousands of programs and sub-programs (plus a working system/3 model 12) to Cambridge.
The index was originally a program that he wrote which had all of the boxes searchable by the nnn.nnnn.nnnn.nnnn.nnn number he has on the outside and it tells the relative offset of the beginning and end of each program within each box. The program itself was originally written in (I think) PL/s, also on cards, but I rewrote it in assembler for him back in the 80's and helped him (start to) re-catalog it all. He originally kept it in the basement of our house that was a fairly good controlled environment because it held several iterations and parts of mainframes and micros that he worked with over the years, but when he got older I guess he decided that the environmentals were too expensive to maintain so he just wrapped everything in plastic shrink-wrap and shut off the lights. I rescued it all about 15 years ago and have been sending bits and pieces to various universities from time to time. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
