360/50 microcode listing

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Fri May 8 21:52:14 CDT 2015


On 05/08/2015 10:05 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 7 May 2015 at 19:16, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
>> You can't do that with a real 360 (some 360/20's were pretty small), even a
>> 360/30 was a pretty big box.
>
> Have you read Lawrence Wilkison's account of rescuing an S360/20 in NZ
> when he was a student? It was a truly epic undertaking.
>
>
YES, and I have saved it on my machine!  A GREAT tale.  But, 
that machine probably no longer exists.
It was a 360/30 (NOT /20) by the way.  A 360/20 is a 16-bit 
mini, and not instruction set compatible with the 360 series.

Jon


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