On 30 December 2011 15:48, Camiel Vanderhoeven <iamcamiel at gmail.com> wrote:
A friend of mine who was a software engineer at
Digital Equipment
Corporation gave me a console panel for a System/360 model 65 that they had
in their office (the console panel, not the system).
I am restoring the console panel, and I'm creating an interface to a PC to
make all the lights and switches work as originally intended. I'm keeping a
blog of my progress at ?<http://ibm360-console.blogspot.com>
http://ibm360-console.blogspot.com.
I'm now looking for field engineering documentation (hardcopy or scans/pdfs)
in order to make the emulation as faithful as possible to the original.
These are some of the document titles I'm looking for:
System/360 Model 65, 2065 Processing Unit, Field Engineering Maintenance
Manual
System/360 Model 65, 2065 Processing Unit, Field Engineering Diagrams Manual
System/360 Model 65 Field Engineering Manual of Instruction
System/360 Model 65 Field Engineering Theory of Operation Manual
System/360 Model 65 CPU and Channels Training, Field Engineering Education
Supplementary Course Material
The same material for the model 60, 62 or 67 instead of the 65 would help
too, given the similarities between these machines.
One thing in particular that I'm looking for that would help a lot is a data
flow diagram showing the register and bus names. Another thing that would be
very useful is a listing of the BCROS microcode.
The functional characteristics manual (which is available on Bitsavers)
doesn't offer the level of detail I'd like.
Wow! That is quite some project - and lavishly documented, as well.
Good work so far and good luck with it!
You should talk to Lawrence Wilkinson (ljw-cctech at ljw.me.uk) who is
building an FPGA emulation of an early S/360 - a model 30, I think.
Perhaps once he has that working, you could cooperate on a Model 65
version and interface actual hardware to your control panel! :?)
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