Just picked up an IBM System/36 5362 tonight. It is in pretty good
physical condition with just a few minor scratches - other than needing
a thorough cleaning. It has 2 60 MB hard disks in the unit. Not sure
of the RAM capacity. Missing the the mode hard key.
A few of us tried to get it
You will need the keyboard. Those terminals usually don't come up without
it. Good news tho if the keyboard has been nicked, the protocol is
compatible-ish with PS/2. I have successfully used $generic_ps2_keyboard
with the right plug for it. Make sure to not hit the Windows key (or any
other 'new'
On 11/10/18 6:59 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
> The BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL languages were not installed.
Languages are difficult to find.
Good news. At our AHCS club meeting today, someone there just happened
to have a keyboard with the correct code page and connector for my
terminal. Yvan was correct in that the terminal doesn't operate at all
without one. With the keyboard, everything came alive. The machine
IPL'd just
Thanks Yvan. I was hopeful when the terminal output the standard status
line at the bottom with an 08 code in the lower right above the line and
a blue K in the bottom center below the line - which I assumed was a
keyboard not present error. I could not find the address switch
anywhere on that
Just picked up an IBM System/36 5362 last night. It is in pretty good
physical condition with just a few minor scratches - other than needing
a thorough cleaning. It has 2 60 MB hard disks in the unit. Not sure
of the RAM capacity. Missing the the mode hard key.
A few of us tried to get it
