IBM 360 (was Re: Cray picked up today)

Lawrence wrote: If you (or anyone) know of any 360 or 370 machines that are available, please let me know, as I'd like to try to get another 360 or 370 for the Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org). It should be noted that I'm not officially acting on their behalf; I only do volunteer work (e.g., PDP-1 Restoration Project), and they haven't asked me to find more machines for them. I just think they should have them. :-) Currently CHM has an IBM 360/30. The internal condition is apparently not very good, though I haven't looked inside it myself. But I really hope that we can restore some model of 360 (or 370) in the future. Having an operational 360 system that people could submit jobs to via punched cards (or maybe RJE over the internet) would really rock! The CHM setup includes some 2311 disk drives and 24xx tape drives, but apparently not control units for them. And I'm willing to donate a 2540 Card Read Punch to CHM to use with it, but I don't have the 2821 control unit that was used for that and the 1403 printer. :-( Eric