Jul 24, 2007
Welcome to Show 093! This week's topic: The IBM System/360!
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link to the Retrobits Podcast Forum (until the URL is
repaired)...
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stuff, at the
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A very interesting piece of history - an article
describing the design motivations behind one of the most
successful computer architectures ever - the System/360.
(PDF format...)
Want to convert from your old system to the System/360? Of
course you do!
And this IBM color flip book from the 1960s will show you
how...link courtesy of the Computer History Museum (PDF
format...)
Why did
some mainframes use a 36-bit word length? Wikipedia will
tell you!
Want to emulate a mainframe on your PC? No, I'm not
kidding. Have a
look at Hercules...
If you want to be in the System/360 "in crowd", you're going to
need
a IBM System/360 reference card (a.k.a. the "green card")!
Want to just read about the IBM System/360? Here's the Wikipedia
page, and here's
a history page with other info...
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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.
Thanks for listening!
- Earl