28 Jun
2013
28 Jun
'13
1:21 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Arno Kletzander wrote:
The IBM 4331 Hans Franke, John Z. and my humbleness
rescued back around
2000 here in Germany was indeed stored in the attic of an, IIRC,
[...]
The twin disk drive that came with the unit
unfortunately was not so
easy, the drive mechanisms were already separate but the rest of the
stuff (including the rather heavy air pump and motor) weren't easily
removable and thus left inside the Frame. Unfortunately that drive was
deemed unsalvageable afterwards, so once we get the Computer operational
(it is reassembled and the Service processor is accessible via the
System terminal, but IIRC something crashes without so much as an error
code when the SP tries to enable power to the CPU), we won't have period
storage for it.
Well, a 4331 without storage is pretty much useless. I am very glad that
ours came very complete with 8809 tape drives and a string of 3340/3344
and 3370 disks (the latter went to the IBM museum) (plus printers and
terminals).
The system's running VSE, but I'd prefer VM/SP 5 (I have all tapes *except*
the starter tape :-( ) Anyone have experience in creating a starter tape
from the Product/Source tapes e.g. under VM/370 or
VM/ESA (on a P/390) ?
Christian
PS:
IMHO IBM mainframe operating systems are completely braindead... why does
the user has to know anything about cylinders and drive types?