15 Mar
2002
15 Mar
'02
4:18 a.m.
Just in case someone on the list may help him:
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To: hans.franke(a)mch20.sbs.de
Subject: IBM 1401
Date sent: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:45:00 -0800
From: Van Snyder <vsnyder(a)math.jpl.nasa.gov>
Hans:
I won't be able to travel to the Vintage Computer Festival Europa.
Does your organization have a mailing list? I'm looking for IBM 1401
software, manuals, service drawings, information, ....
If you have a mailing list, can you forward this message?
I'm involved with a historical preservation project (that has nothing to
do with my employer). I'm hoping to find Autocoder, Cobol, Fortran, RPG,
Sort 6/7, IOCS, ..., manuals, user-developed applications, the engineering
drawings that CE's used for field maintenance, or any other IBM 1401
memorabilia (including equipment!).
Do you have any of this stuff, or know anybody who might?
Thanks in advance,
Van Snyder
vsnyder(a)math.jpl.nasa.gov
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15 Mar
15 Mar
4:52 a.m.
--- Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de> wrote:
Just in case someone on the list may help him:
I'll write him directly, but I wanted to mention a $0.75 thrift-store
purchase - a correspondence course in computer programming, complete
with sample punch cards, focusing on the 1401 as the target processor.
I'm sure it was from an estate . Got a couple of OS/360 books for
$0.50 the same day. Never saw anything good at that thrift store
again and now it's closed (a real shame... it was 2 blocks from
my house; I used to have two thrifts within walking distance, and
they are both gone now).
-ethan
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To: hans.franke(a)mch20.sbs.de
Subject: IBM 1401
Date sent: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:45:00 -0800
From: Van Snyder <vsnyder(a)math.jpl.nasa.gov>
I'm looking for IBM 1401 software, manuals, service drawings,
information, ....
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14 Mar
14 Mar
10:19 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'll write him directly, but I wanted to mention a
$0.75 thrift-store
purchase - a correspondence course in computer programming, complete
with sample punch cards, focusing on the 1401 as the target processor.
Oooh, what was the title?
I'm sure it was from an estate . Got a couple of
OS/360 books for $0.50
the same day. Never saw anything good at that thrift store again and now
it's closed (a real shame... it was 2 blocks from my house; I used to
have two thrifts within walking distance, and they are both gone now).
I have several locally (not within walking distance, which is probably a
good thing) but the best one closed down. I pulled a lot of good stuff
out of there in the couple years they were open.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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15 Mar
15 Mar
5:27 p.m.
--- Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
The text book is...
Wanous, Wanous and Hughes, "Introduction to Automated Data Processing",
1968, South-Western Publishing Company, Cincinnati, OH.
I've found assignments on setting up the IBM 402 tabulator, and coding
forms for the IBM 1240/1401/1420/1440/1460, among other interesting
goodies. The homework kit contains large fold-out charts of punch
card design sheets, 402 tabulator layout diagrams, sample punch cards
and time cards for assignments, etc.
What I was trying to remember is that this course specifically covers
the "1401 Symbolic Programming System" _and_ IBM 1401 machine language.
E.g...
Machine Language Instructions
Instruction Operation A Address B Address d-Char Comments
Address Code
0378 1 READ A CARD
0379 M 0009 0230 MOVE CHARACTER
0388 M 0029 0250 MOVE CHARACTER
0397 2 WRITE A LINE
0398 / 0378 0299 CLEAR AND BRANCH
... vs...
SPS Instructions
Label Operation A Operand B Operand d-Char Comments
REPEAT R READ A CARD
MCW 0009 0230 MOVE CHAR
MCW 0029 0250 MOVE CHAR
W WRITE A LINE
CS REPEAT 0299 CLEAR AND BRANCH
(from page 183)
-ethan
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...a correspondence course in computer
programming, complete
with sample punch cards, focusing on the 1401 as the target processor.
Oooh, what was the title? 
16 Mar
16 Mar
2:46 a.m.
At 08:27 PM 3/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
Machine Language Instructions
Instruction Operation A Address B Address d-Char Comments
Address Code
0378 1 READ A CARD
0379 M 0009 0230 MOVE CHARACTER
0388 M 0029 0250 MOVE CHARACTER
0397 2 WRITE A LINE
0398 / 0378 0299 CLEAR AND BRANCH
And punch a card was OpCode 4.
Op codes could be combined so the OpCode 7 was read/write/punch. You could
make the machine real busy by putting a 7 with a word mark throughout
storage using the switches on the console.
1:59 p.m.
Suggest you contact Paul Pierce, for starters.
Check out his web site, http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/, particularly
http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/main.html
and http://www.piercefuller.com/oldibm-shadow/
This last link has some 1401 software, and a 1401 simulator (which works at
least partially, but has not, as far as I know, been thoroughly wrung out).
Jay Jaeger
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To: hans.franke(a)mch20.sbs.de
Subject: IBM 1401
Date sent: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:45:00 -0800
From: Van Snyder <vsnyder(a)math.jpl.nasa.gov>
Hans:
I won't be able to travel to the Vintage Computer Festival Europa.
Does your organization have a mailing list? I'm looking for IBM 1401
software, manuals, service drawings, information, ....
If you have a mailing list, can you forward this message?
I'm involved with a historical preservation project (that has nothing to
do with my employer). I'm hoping to find Autocoder, Cobol, Fortran, RPG,
Sort 6/7, IOCS, ..., manuals, user-developed applications, the engineering
drawings that CE's used for field maintenance, or any other IBM 1401
memorabilia (including equipment!).
Do you have any of this stuff, or know anybody who might?
Thanks in advance,
Van Snyder
vsnyder(a)math.jpl.nasa.gov
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