IBM PT-2

Yea the PT-2 was a CE tool used for TONS of devices, I have a write-up on IBM storage from the 3370 days and the PT-2 was mentioned for diagnostics on the 3370, even remotely to a customer site over landline I would suppose. So a pretty neat thing but this and all later devices had tapes you'd run on them to do the diagnostic packages. So there are tons of these devices and very few tapes floating around, even within IBM I have only seen a few tapes floating around anymore but a few of these machines still sit tucked away in corners... Tapes get lost over time, thrown out, whatever, assets and physical machines stick around. I do know one of the types of tapes ran to run some kind of test was a "SCAM" it was called, someone I talked to said he liked to joke it ran "SCAM"s at IBM. I also bet there was tons of internal documentations because I assume the programs don't just give out straight answers to problems, probably give ref codes and things that you'd need documentation or knowledge to know what is failing or whats doing what. So sadly these things are quite the mystery unless your a CE who kept all of their stuff. That is what I know of anyway from my perspective. I probably know 0.1% what some others know so take everything with a grain of salt :) -Connor K On 8/22/2019 08:12, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: