It is a 360/20. the 360/25 was larger and the "upgrade" from there was to a 360/mini-mod-22. the 360/25 would run 1401 emulation.
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Frazier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: S/360 hardware related. That should be 360-50 not 36-50. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recognize it. That is a 360-25 with a MFCU at one end and a printer at > the other. Back in the early 70's the Oklahoma Tax Commission had one > that ran an operating system called DOS that later grew up to be z/VSE. > My roommate was the systems programmer/operator on it. I was working at > OU at the time we had a 36-50 that ran OS/MFT which is now called z/OS. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On page 50 of the Nov. 2006 issue of SC Magazine is a picture that has >> been labeled a System/360. >> I've seen a lot of S/360 pictures and have even been in the presence >> of one, but I don't ever recall >> a S/360 looking like this. Obviously, there is a printer and a card >> reader in the picture. Is the unit >> in the middle the controller for these devices? But on second look, I >> can see the Emergency Pull and >> the dials for setting addresses (IPL , etc.). >> So, what S/360 is this unit used on? >> Thanks, >> Steve > -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us
