Archives of OS/360-ish public domain software? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Jun 2000

William Doznelli wrote:
...
 Tim Shoppa wrote:
> Are there any on-line archives of OS/360 software in the
> public domain?  I'm thinking not only of operating system
> software distributions (which are rumored to be in the public
> domain), but also of user-group collections of software for
> these beasts.  I'm also interested in software for previous
> generations of old iron, like IBM 1401's, etc. 
...
 I might think could be out of luck. It seems that most
IBM software 
(except for S/34, 36, and 38 stuff) goes away very quickly. I have a 
feeling IBM itself has something to do with this. 
There must've been an (or several) IBM "Big Iron" users groups at
one point.  Didn't they have a library of public-domain software they
shared?

I *do* realize that the entire IBM "Big Iron" philosophy is very
different than, say, the DEC minicomputer or CP/M microcomputer
philosophies, but still it's hard for me to imagine that there were
*Zero* user group software libraries.

...
 If RCS/RI ever come across any, we will let you know.

Wasn't there supposed to be a RCS/RI trip to rescue a lot of old "big iron"
stuff from a former IBM field service type?  Did he have any OS distributions
or field-service diagnostics among that stuff?

Tim.