Sorry, OT, but you may know someone who worked in an INTERCOMM shop.
Please encourage them to join interc...@groups.io
<https://groups.io/g/INTERCOMM/> to share their recollections and
experiences.
Last May, many expressed interest in helping to save the INTERCOMM
TeleProcessing Monitor software, the most successful third-party TP
monitor competing with CICS in the 1970s and 1980s. I was the assistant
and bug fixer, z/OS sysprog and Unix Flex/ES sysop, working for the last
person who was supporting INTERCOMM. I had a copy of the last and to the
best of my knowledge the only complete set of hard copy manuals and
machine readable development, product release and support material for
releases 9, 10 and 11. I asked and the owners of INTERCOMM agreed to
release the product to the hobby computer community.
Mark Waterbury has volunteered to scan the hard copy library into PDF
format documents. Meanwhile Jay Maynard built a 3380 disk and a ready to
run "turnkey" INTERCOMM R9 configured for the TK4- MVS 3.8j System
<https://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/> (download, unzip and auto-IPL). The R9
manuals and the disk image can now be downloaded, see "Update:" on the
INTERCOMM Group home page at interc...@groups.io
<https://groups.io/g/INTERCOMM/>. Whether you like to learn, design and
write your own online transaction processing system, or to offer
suggestions and share your recollections, or perhaps just to refresh
your memory of INTERCOMM, I would like to invite you to join the newly
created <interc...@groups.io <https://groups.io/g/INTERCOMM/>>.
Andreas Geissbuehler
