18 Sep
2001
18 Sep
'01
8:55 a.m.
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:00:34 -0700
From: "Brian Knittel" <brian(a)quarterbyte.com>
Subject: Re: IBM 1130
Good to hear there some other 1130 fans out there!
I should have added that we have ten disk cartridges with our 1130.
One is labeled "IBM Only" and we hope it's a CE disk. We didn't
find any punched card based software other than four IPL (boot) cards.
One is labeled "APLIPL" and we have an APL typeball, so we think
one of the cartridges has APL on it. However, we're a long way from
trying to spin it up to see if the disks are still readable after
what must be 20 years.
APL/1130... Lord, that brings back a couple of memories. FWIW, the language
is very similar to APL/360. The nasty part was the special symbols. The
console keyboard (basically a 029 keyboard) was mapped into three shift
states (3 symbols per keycap) with the shift state being indicated by banks
of front panel lights.
IIRC, make sure to make lots of copies of the APLIPL card as my experience
was that the reader/punch would occasionally munch it.
Also IIRC, the correct name for the IPL card is a "Cold Start" card.
We also have the maintenance manuals and schematics,
but
no diagnostic software listings. We'd be interested in getting
copies of anything you get scanned or OCR'd, Hans.
Norm is setting up a boffo website for it all. A grand
opening announcement will be coming soon!
Can't wait to see it...
<<<john>>>