Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Robert Prins Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 10:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-26 Thread Dave McGuire
On 1/23/24 10:57, Robert Prins wrote: My father worked for IBM in the Netherlands for more than 30 years, starting as a CE in the late 1950'ies. Last year he was diagnosed with Alzheimer, and over the past few months my siblings and me have been emptying his apartment and storage room, and we've

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available I'm pretty sure that the thing I saw was significantly older than 650. The bits were so big that they were using an oscilloscope to see them. I don't recall if they said what machine that

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-25 Thread Leonard D Woren
: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available Maybe contact the Computer History Museum https://computerhistory.org/ . They probably have the resources to ship anything they're interested in. Their collection includes IBM hardware that predates any of us having seen a digital computer.

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-25 Thread Tom Gardner
four weeks or so to get back to you - maybe sooner if really interested Regards, Tom -Original Message- From: Leonard D Woren Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 9:38 PM Subject: Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available Maybe contact the Computer Histor

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Leonard D Woren Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 12:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available Maybe contact the Computer History Museum https://computerhistory.org/ . They prob

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-24 Thread Leonard D Woren
Maybe contact the Computer History Museum https://computerhistory.org/ .  They probably have the resources to ship anything they're interested in. Their collection includes IBM hardware that predates any of us having seen a digital computer.  It's been quite a while since I was there, but

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-23 Thread William Donzelli
I think we could find interested people that could get the stuff to good homes and Bitsavers. I would be interested in some of it - not all, as it does need to travel. I look forward to the pictures. -- Will On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:53 AM Robert Prins wrote: > > Hi all, > > My father worked

OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-23 Thread Robert Prins
Hi all, My father worked for IBM in the Netherlands for more than 30 years, starting as a CE in the late 1950'ies. Last year he was diagnosed with Alzheimer, and over the past few months my siblings and me have been emptying his apartment and storage room, and we've come across a sizeable