Launch of the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie
Very nice office facility, a likely original setting for most of the equipment displayed. The 5100 caught my eye, what features, how operational? Do you have a Selectric terminal on site? I used one in the era for SPICE simulation under TSO on some campus 360. Good to see some other printing technology. Regards Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA https://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing
Herb, That's Connor's 5110. His particular model didn't come with the built- in quicktape drive... not like that would matter, all those tapes are broken now anyway. So without the external 8" disk unit, we have no way of loading or storing programs on/from it. It supports BASIC and APL, but without disk our any kind of I/O really isn't useful. We don't have any Selectric terminals yet. Instead, we have an IBM Memory Typewriter (which uses a big magnetic ribbon to store up to 50 form letters) and an IBM Correcting Selectric II, both Connor's. Not shown is my baby, the 6262 impact printer used by VM development for _all_ of their kernel source code and dumps between the years 1988 and 2012. Its sitting in storage in Building 001 along with its' full- size 3174 control unit, waiting for the day when we can get a line item budget and convince management to give us some 240V and three-phase power. After 2012, the 6262 developed constant jamming issues that the Ricoh guy claimed he "couldn't fix". I'm hoping its more a matter of IBM having sold the printer people to Ricoh and the now-Ricoh guy not caring enough like the old IBM CEs did. Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them or She/Her Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger -----Original Message----- From: Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf- midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Reply-To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Herbert Johnson <hjohnson@retrotechnology.info> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] Launch of the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie Date: 07/08/2024 05:14:14 PM Very nice office facility, a likely original setting for most of the equipment displayed. The 5100 caught my eye, what features, how operational? Do you have a Selectric terminal on site? I used one in the era for SPICE simulation under TSO on some campus 360. Good to see some other printing technology. Regards Herb Johnson
On 7/9/24 22:40, Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Herb,
That's Connor's 5110. His particular model didn't come with the built- in quicktape drive... not like that would matter, all those tapes are broken now anyway. So without the external 8" disk unit, we have no way of loading or storing programs on/from it. It supports BASIC and APL, but without disk our any kind of I/O really isn't useful.
Do you need the drive or is it a whole card, cable, drive, etc.? -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
Neil, Not sure; Connor would know best. I've put him on copy. - Dan
On 07/09/2024 11:36 PM EDT Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:
On 7/9/24 22:40, Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Herb,
That's Connor's 5110. His particular model didn't come with the built- in quicktape drive... not like that would matter, all those tapes are broken now anyway. So without the external 8" disk unit, we have no way of loading or storing programs on/from it. It supports BASIC and APL, but without disk our any kind of I/O really isn't useful.
Do you need the drive or is it a whole card, cable, drive, etc.?
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
Hi Neil, I would need a disk cabinet, the cable should be permanently attached. I believe at some point I was supposed to take one of the worse off units from VCFeds warehouse actually to help them with space. It’s just not been discussed in a while and folks on the board have changed a few times so it would need to be brought back up if they are still wanting one gone. I have the drives and controller out of a later model 5120 (where the drives are built in) theoretically I might be able to rig those up in an enclosure and build a cable and that might work but need to find the time. So a few options. Until recently not a ton of software for the 5100 series has been preserved but someone recently stumbled on a machine with a lot of software and CE disks so hopefully they will be able to get that all imaged. Herb, it’s a 5110 with BASIC and APL, 64K of ram and I believe an asynchronous comms adapter. If I’m interpreting the ALDs correctly. So it’s a nice config. Thanks, -Connor K
On Jul 10, 2024, at 10:45 AM, Daniel FitzGerald <danjfitzgerald@comcast.net> wrote:
Neil,
Not sure; Connor would know best. I've put him on copy.
- Dan
On 07/09/2024 11:36 PM EDT Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:
On 7/9/24 22:40, Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Herb,
That's Connor's 5110. His particular model didn't come with the built- in quicktape drive... not like that would matter, all those tapes are broken now anyway. So without the external 8" disk unit, we have no way of loading or storing programs on/from it. It supports BASIC and APL, but without disk our any kind of I/O really isn't useful.
Do you need the drive or is it a whole card, cable, drive, etc.?
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
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