[rescue] looking for IBM System/36 software

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Thu Apr 9 10:22:55 CDT 2015


On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On 04/09/2015 11:20 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>  I am hoping to learn a lot more about that.  There's some very
>>> interesting technology in those machines.  All my life I had dismissed
>>> them as dull, closed, "all business" machines, where my focus has always
>>> been on scientific computing.  But dull they most certainly are
>>> not...those IBMers did some really good stuff in those designs.  They
>>> really knew what they were doing.
>>>
>>
>> Write an emulator! ;)
>
>  Screw that.  Run the hardware!  The best use of an emulator is to
> assist in the running of real hardware.
>

Then donate an S/36 to me ;)

>             -Dave
>
>

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