In 2000 - when I was helping the Computer History Museum restore their 1620 by designing and building a hardware peripheral emulator - I had the honor of discussing it with the late Joe Crespo, an IBM engineer from the San Jose group that brought up the prototype in 1958. He told me tha...
nonworking IBM 1620 mainframe computer at the Computer Museum History Center in San Jose, California. Babcock's development of a 1620 emulator that ran on a PalmPilot computer; Restoration team's search for information on old 1620s; Participation of the original designer of the 1620 in the ...
When I was in college one of my projects was to write a 1401 emulator in IBM 360 assembler, and to have it run a program. Word marks! Decimal arithmetic! Fun! Translate 0 Kudos Copy link Reply andrew_4619 Honored Contributor III 02-22-2018 02:23 PM 2,039 Views G...
We had one site with six 360-65 Mainframes, one had a 7080 emulator installed. That site also had a 1401. And I still remember looking inside a 729 Tape Drive and being amazed at how they drove the reels.Reply UnknownJanuary 26, 2022 at 6:54 PM I had a site with a 360-50 ...
When I was in college one of my projects was to write a 1401 emulator in IBM 360 assembler, and to have it run a program. Word marks! Decimal arithmetic! Fun! Translate 0 Kudos Copy link Reply andrew_4619 Honored Contributor III 02-22-2018 02:23 PM 1,976 Views Great video...