Hi All The Release 4 of the IBM 650 computer simulator is available from the Computer History Simulation Project (SIMH) site: https://github.com/simh/simh
This release is focused on Disk and Tape devices. I've recovered some interesting software, ready to test in SW/ directory · Donald Knuth SuperSoap: the most advanced assembler IMHO, full of nice programming tricks like a subroutine computing return address! · Regional Assembler from Missile Systems Division Lockheed Aircraft Corporation: Seems to be very similar to IBM 701 Regional Assembler: no mnemonics!, just regions to allow code to be at non-absolute addresses On the hardware side, still unimplemented the inquiry stations, as I've spotted no sw at all that use them. Any help is welcome. Any comment/suggestion is also very welcome. Best regards Roberto This is a summary of what's new o New Hardware support: § IBM 650 Model 4 with 4000 words drum memory. § IBM 652 Control Unit: provides up to 6 tape units IBM 727 § Table LookUp on equal feature (provides TLE opcode) § IBM 355 RAMAC Disk Storage o New Software included: § SOAP IIA-4000 multipass assembler § SOAP IIA-4000 Tape Librarian § Regional Assembler § SuperSoap o New features: § CARDDECK SPLIT command now allows to split availability table deck and condensed 5-word-per-load-card deck. o The usual bug correction pack ________________________________ Este correo electrónico y, en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, contiene información de carácter confidencial exclusivamente dirigida a su destinatario o destinatarios. Si no es vd. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado que la lectura, utilización, divulgación y/o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. En el caso de haber recibido este correo electrónico por error, se ruega notificar inmediatamente esta circunstancia mediante reenvío a la dirección electrónica del remitente. Evite imprimir este mensaje si no es estrictamente necesario. This email and any file attached to it (when applicable) contain(s) confidential information that is exclusively addressed to its recipient(s). If you are not the indicated recipient, you are informed that reading, using, disseminating and/or copying it without authorisation is forbidden in accordance with the legislation in effect. If you have received this email by mistake, please immediately notify the sender of the situation by resending it to their email address. Avoid printing this message if it is not absolutely necessary.
_______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
