Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

[william degnan]

Speaking of "Computer Structures Reading and Examples" by Bell and Newell,
chapter 41 has a section about the 7094 I, II.  Start from page 515 to read
about the 701-7094 II sequence/evolution
Bill

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 9:16 AM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Following top post of this reply...
>
> There is a doc called 709-7090 General Information Manual D22-6508, which
> I don't see in bitsavers (I don't have).  The operator's guide for 7090
> Data Processing System is A22-6535 is on bitsavers, but that's not going to
> help you much.  The big hole in the bitsavers collection for the 709-7090
> is A22-6503, the 709-7090 Data Processing System Reference Manual.  It's
> kind of like Gordon Bell's book with a combination of hardware and
> programming to explain how the system works.  I think that's what you
> want.
>
> Maybe someone has a copy of this?  If not I can scan mine.  My 7090 is out
> for repairs anyway so I don't need it at the moment. Those repair guys
> don't move as fast as they used to.
>
> Most of the rest of the docs I have related to 709-7090 are Fortran
> related.
>
> On the back pages of the 709/7090 Data Processing System Bulletins you'll
> find a bibliography of all 709-7090 publications and their titles.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:40 AM, Paul Birkel via cctech <
> cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> Wonderful document.  Thank you IBM Customer Engineering!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Camiel
>> Vanderhoeven via cctech
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:01 AM
>> To: Noel Chiappa; cctech; cctalk at classiccmp.org
>> Subject: Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers
>>
>> Have you really looked at everything that is on Bitsavers? It¹s much more
>> than just the engineering manuals. If I may offer a suggestion, have a
>> look at this document and see if it fits your needs:
>>
>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/ce/223-6895-1_7090_CE_
>> Reference_System
>> _Fundamentals_7100_7151_7606_Sep61.pdf
>> <http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/ce/223-6895-1_7090_CE_Reference_System_Fundamentals_7100_7151_7606_Sep61.pdf>
>>
>> Camiel
>>
>> On 11/14/17, 4:32 AM, "cctech on behalf of Noel Chiappa via cctech"
>> <cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org on behalf of cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> >Please, everyone, I do actually know of BitSavers; you don't need to
>> >point me
>> >at it.
>> >
>> >When I said:
>> >
>> >    >> I could look at the engineering manuals, but I was hoping for
>> something
>> >    >> in between them and Bashe et al.
>> >
>> >I assumed everyone would understand that by "engineering manuals", I was
>> >meaning the kind of things one finds in BitSavers.
>> >
>> >       Noel
>>
>>
>>
>