Hello, I don't usually post here so if I am somehow posting wrong please tell me. This popped up on the VCF yesterday and I have been talking with the guy and am going to go pick it up on Sunday, I will be picking up the computer and the software and hopefully all the manuals too. I am going to archive all the software and manuals that do not already exist on the internet. Just thought I would put that out there... (VCF Thread Link: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?54749-Ibm-5360-free-pickup-only) Thank you On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/5/16 11:24 AM, Jason T wrote: S/32 - 36 are fairly well documented. It's just non-trivial to do the work and would require someone to reverse-engineer with a machine next to them. S34 would probably be easier though since it only has one processor and didn't have quite as much LSI in it. If you need some place to dump the resulting scans and disk images, I can put them on bitsavers. I still have several boxes of S/36 documentation in the backlog.

On 2016-11-05 4:07 PM, Al Kossow wrote: The architecture of both the S/34 and S/36 is very similar and both of teem include two processors the CSP and MSP. The CSP handled most of the I/O operations as well as getting the system off the ground while the MSP processor executed the user programs. Even the S/32 is very similar. The S/32 was a single user machine with up to 64K of memory, a 10MB disk and either a dot matrix or belt printer built in. The S/34 added more memory and multi user capability. S/36 again increased the maximum memory, had faster processors, a much improved user interface on the OS (SSP) and added one more instruction. The MSP memory in the S/34 and S/36 was divided into 64K segments and no program object could be larger than 64K. The hardware itself is pretty unspectacular, the main reason for the popularity of S/36 was the availability of software and the ease of use of the system. They where commonly found in small businesses that had no DP staff, at a lot of my S/36 customers, the person looking after the S/36 was the controller. The user interface on the AS/400 was largely based on the S/36 SSP. Paul.