On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr <g...@shiresoft.com> > wrote: > > The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There > were > > originally 2 models and another 2 models were added later... > > ISTR having to mod our 3780 COMBOARD code to talk to a Series/1 in > about 1992 or so because someone in WI bought our VAXBI COMBOARD to > send EDI purchase reqs to a vendor network run by IBM and the device > on the other end of our customer's modem was a Series/1 that didn't > quite exactly implement 3780 like all the IBM products before it. > > -ethan > Whomever gets this, I donated my Series/1 to the VCFed Museum in Wall NJ, and if you want to check it out for comparison purposes, I would be happy to help set up an appointment to inspect it. Also, I have some notes about the system I had, which is very similar to the Series/1 on craigslist. I was able to IPL it, but did not do much else. http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=12 http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ibm/Series1/ http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=206 Bill