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> From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Al Kossow
> Sent: 27 May 2016 01:30
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> Subject: Re: [Simh] System/1
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> On 5/26/16 1:46 PM, Bob Supnik wrote:
> > I didn't know of
On 5/26/16 5:29 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 5/26/16 1:46 PM, Bob Supnik wrote:
>> I didn't know of any surviving software
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> look on bitsavers for docs and software, unless I forgot to upload it.
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I just looked, and I haven't put up the floppy images
There is more documentation up than
On 5/26/16 1:46 PM, Bob Supnik wrote:
> I didn't know of any surviving software
look on bitsavers for docs and software, unless I forgot to upload it.
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The DoD system running our nuclear arsenal off floppy disks is an IBM
System/1, their 1970's "answer" to the popularity of DEC and DG
minicomputers. When they released it, some IBM flack said that the
System/1 "legitimized" the minicomputer market. This led to a famous
(albeit never published)
