IBM 360 Model 50 information?

[Jay Jaeger]

On 3/31/2019 4:08 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>     > From: William Donzelli
> 
>     > It is very likely IBM does not have the information anymore - at least
>     > not in the archives. ... they simply did not keep much from that era.
>     > It was probably disposed of back when IBM was in trouble 30 years ago.
> 
> Which emphasizes that it's important to make the point to IBM that we
> wouldn't be asking for IBM to supply the information; rather, this is about
> being able to reproduce info that IBM itself may no longer have.
> 

Been there, done that.  Came to a dead end after about a year of emails
and even a phone call or two.

> Is anyone up for tackling IBM? If so, and we need support, I can ask my
> Master, Jerry Saltzer, if anyone he knew at IBM is still there - he used to
> have a lot of influence inside IBM (he's the person who got FS killed, I was
> informed). But that was a long time ago...
> 
>     > From: Jay Jaeger
> 
>     > I suspect, but do not know of course, that the reasons that the owners
>     > would not part with their copies was ... concern over their value
>     > becoming diminished by having scanned copies around.
> 
> One easy way to test that is to have Al ask the person with the ALD's if
> they'd be OK with having that stuff scanned if we got an OK from IBM.
> 
> 	Noel
> 

Based on my experience, they will not ever give such an OK.