20 Sep
1998
20 Sep
'98
5:16 p.m.
Anybody know where I can get an IBM 360/30?
No. And I would _seriously_ drive across the country to get any S/360 or
370. Maybe even for an S/3 or S/7.
It would be fun to port Linux
to that, although the lack of paging would be a bit of a problem. One of
the cool things about the 360/30 is that you can alter the microcode using
a standard keypuch machine.
A real problem, I would say. The Model 30s were just about the runts of
the family, and could only have 8 to 64 K of storage.
I would think that putting Linux on an S/370 would be just a bit easier,
but still cool enough to matter (circa 1974!). But I think there are less
S/370s out there than S/360s (I know of _one_ S/370, and it belongs to
IBM. S/360s, at least, number more than 10, probably).
And by S/370, I mean _real_ S/370, with the cool panels. Not the beige
boxes IBM made in late 1970s, dropping the S/370 name.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net