Fwd: curious claim questioned [was RE: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.]

2016-11-23 Thread jim stephens
Forwarded Message Subject: curious claim questioned [was RE: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.] Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 02:00:07 + From: Rich Alderson <ri...@livingcomputers.org> Reply-To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@class

curious claim questioned [was RE: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.]

2016-11-23 Thread Rich Alderson
From: jim stephens Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 3:21 PM > the Ultimate system was the only Non IBM written supervisor / system > that ran on mainframes at the time. You're going to have to be more specific than that. At what time? On what mainframe(s)? Are you saying that by the time

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-22 Thread jim stephens
On 11/22/2016 2:56 PM, Paul Berger wrote: The channel adapter on the Series/1 had a rather large flaw, if you did not disable the interface before shutting down the Series/1 it would upset the channel it was attached to causing a flurry of channel checks that could bring the host system to

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-22 Thread jim stephens
On 11/22/2016 10:09 AM, william degnan wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr >wrote: > >The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There >were > >originally 2 models and another 2 models were added later... Ultimate's Pick

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-22 Thread william degnan
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr > wrote: > > The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There > were > > originally 2 models and another 2 models were added

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-22 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: > The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There were > originally 2 models and another 2 models were added later... ISTR having to mod our 3780 COMBOARD code to talk to a Series/1 in about 1992

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-22 Thread Evan Koblentz
The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There were originally 2 models and another 2 models were added later. I always knew them by their code names — different varieties of peaches…so named because they were developed by IBM’s GSD division which was headquartered in

RE: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-22 Thread Dave Wade
Jr > Sent: 22 November 2016 07:31 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US. > > The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There were > originally 2 models and a

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread COURYHOUSE
Ah! Ok! heard of it but never seen an installation. Great find! I am a little foggy on it but I somehow remember it being able to control external devices for process use vs. the usual IBM stuff that was just 'data processing' Ed# In a message dated 11/22/2016 12:31:26 A.M. US

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr
The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There were originally 2 models and another 2 models were added later. I always knew them by their code names — different varieties of peaches…so named because they were developed by IBM’s GSD division which was headquartered in

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread COURYHOUSE
what is it? looks too new for me, do not remember this one Ed# In a message dated 11/21/2016 9:30:06 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, drlegen...@gmail.com writes: The vintage computing world is in your debt, Steven.. ;-) On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Steven Maresca

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread drlegendre .
The vintage computing world is in your debt, Steven.. ;-) On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Steven Maresca wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Ian Finder wrote: > > > Someone go rescue this: > >

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread Steven Maresca
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Ian Finder wrote: > Someone go rescue this: > http://nwct.craigslist.org/zip/5886266424.html > > Or palletize it and send it to me. > > > -- >Ian Finder >(206) 395-MIPS >ian.fin...@gmail.com >

Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread Ian Finder
Someone go rescue this: http://nwct.craigslist.org/zip/5886266424.html Or palletize it and send it to me. -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.fin...@gmail.com -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.fin...@gmail.com