20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
12:56 p.m.
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
The AS/6 was a IBM S/370 clone, made in the late 1970s
to compete with the
303x line of machines from IBM. According to some old mainframers, the
machine was roughly equivalent to an IBM 3031, or as another put it, an
S/370 model 168 with "crap channels".
Talk to Hans Franke. I think this is the same model that we rescued from
Siemens in Paderborn a few years back. I'm not sure if he got any manuals
or microcode floppies with it.
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