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I finally got this running on a PC. Anyone recognize it?

(Actually I suppose it's pretty obvious what it is - just wondering if anyone has used it.)

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Wow - an IBM mainframe emulator. Never even knew about it.

My curiosity is working overtime again.

If you're into esoteric emulators and simulators ... here's the 1949 EDSAC:

EDSAC simulator

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Thanks.
Tom
 
IBM system 370???

Didn't know there was a 370. 360, yes. Blinking lites and toggle switches.

VM = virtual memory. I think it stood for Virtual Machine. I think that was partioning, so you could run multiple applications at the same time.

O.K. , I just googled it. I see there was a 370 that superseded the 360 mainframe. Never heard of it.

In a prior life, I worked @ the GMISCA data center on Chicago Road for EDS - GM. Ran 3084's twin IO engines, water cooled, all so 3081's and a couple of Amdals: 580 & a 470 V-8.

...Ross the Boss...
 
hilsideser said:
IBM system 370???

Didn't know there was a 370. 360, yes. Blinking lites and toggle switches.

...

...Ross the Boss...
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Loved the lights and switches. They pretty much vanished in the early 370 days in favor of CRT's. I worked for Blue from the early 360 era well into the 3xxx age.

My favorite "light" was the small red "LP" light in the 360 model 30. It stood for "Low Pressure" - the machine had an air compressor and used air pressure to hold some circuitry in contact with some other circuitry.

"Ross the Boss" - a real character!
 
Had greatest respect for "the boys in blue".
 
Darn, I remember 'em all. DOS-VS, DOS VS-E, OS, OS2, MVS...... worked on 370s from 75 to 85. Punched cards, IEBR14, loved it all.
 
Still have a one inch stack of 5081 punch cards I used for note cards in the closet and a few 8" floppy disks.
 
I kept exactly ONE of those 8" floppies. Someplace in the hovel is the set of volumes covering CPM-80 as well.

This all reminds me: time to purge!
 
Roger said:
Darn, I remember 'em all. DOS-VS, DOS VS-E, OS, OS2, MVS...... worked on 370s from 75 to 85. Punched cards, IEBR14, loved it all.
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Me too although I started earlier when BPS, BOS, and OS were still being used. (DOS was called "16K BOS" until about 1966.) We even had a "TOS" system that was a tape-only DOS.

And good old IEFBR14 ! One of the most useful utilities ever written. Not many bugs, either.

Patrick - I still have a few decks of source code. Diagonal stripes along the top, as usual.

Doc - iirc 8" floppies came along about 1972. The first ones I saw were used to hold microcode on a mid-range S/370. Then they were adopted for keypunch replacements etc. Last one I saw was in 1987. We used it as a paper tape replacement on a CNC machine.

Memories....
 
Oh, I started earlier too. I remember upgrading to Cobol 64.
I only mentioned VS and VSE cos you couldn't run the early ones on 370.
 
Too long ago, likely either Cobol or Fortran, but I do recall piddlin' around with a friend's cards... somewhere around 1969. I'd built and-nand gates some time earlier with discreet components and was semi-fascinated with what things had morphed into. Shufflin' his cards was an evil and wrong trick... but those were th' '60's.
As I remember 'em. :devilgrin: :jester:
 
Nothing to do with the big boy you guys are talking about, but I bought my first computer in 1960 and it only took 5 1/2 inch floppies and even had a hard drive! A whole 164 meg! It was the cat's meow! I accumulated a shoe box full of the floppies. Have them all. Like an old suit, I thought they might come back in style someday. :jester: PJ
 
My first computer (other than the analog until with three dials) was the above link Sperry system...used a Tally Tape Reader. Had to load it each boot.
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