3 Feb
2012
3 Feb
'12
11:22 p.m.
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 12:34 -0800, Brent Hilpert wrote:
I love your tale of getting a real 360/30 going (I
read it some years
ago, too):
http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360/Saga.html
Lots of interesting diagnosis & repair work.
Do you know what eventually happened to the machine after you left it?
I didn't find out until relatively recently, but in the "mid 90s"
the
Auckland University Computer Science department were invited to look at
the machine and got the front panel (it would have been difficult to do
much more in a short time, given where it was.) That would have been
something like 10 years after I abandoned it!
You can follow the link from my page to their info.
The other thing I recently found on www.ibm.com was a photo of "the
first IBM System/360 in Australia in 1966" which I think is the same
machine (also a link from my page.)
--
Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence at ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360