IBM 1130's

"Brian Knittel" <brian(a)quarterbyte.com> wrote: Sort of. CHAC has one, and someone not-on-the-list and I were ogling it a couple or three months ago before we got sidetracked by our day jobs. Summary: 1131 processor w/8KW, 1442 card read/punch, 1132 printer, several disc cartridges, several drawers full of card decks, about three boxes of manuals. Among other things, this got me interested enough to track down and read parts of _Programming the IBM 1130 and 1800_ by Robert K. Louden, which goes into enough detail about the 1130/1800 instruction set(s) that I think a simulation of the CPU would not be very hard. No idea where to go to find an 029. They felt antiquated to some of us in college in 1981, and the ones I knew about then appeared to be leased so vanished promptly when no longer needed. Then the college found some 026s for the EE students to use. On the other hand, I think that in 1990 I saw some things that looked like 029s, but were controlled and used as punches by an attached computer. These were in a GE plant in Fort Wayne, IN. -Frank McConnell