Maybe of use with current usage and foundational concepts: https://interskill.com/course/z-vm-introduction-and-concepts-z-vm-7-4/
Don't know if Lynn Wheeler is on this list, but he is active on Facebook and Linkedin and knows a lot about early VM. HTH! Lee Courtney On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I was trying to track down some kind of image/photo of "what IBM VM/370 > looks like" (the operating system) > > I tried looking also in the IBM manuals - I'm just not finding much. Some > kind of image of what maybe a remote login looked like, a task process > list, or maybe basic file/folder management commands, or how an editor or > programming worked on that system. > > There is a bit of media with a VM/370 emulator, but I wasn't sure how > accurately representative it was of a kind of "look and feel" of that OS. > > What I'd need is maybe photographs of teletype printouts? This was still > early 1970s. Which is understandable not much of that was probably kept > around. > > > Thanks, just digging around - like wasn't sure if VM/370 was still > six-character filename limited like earlier 60s era OS's, or whatever > characteristics it had in operating it. > > > -Steve > -- Lee Courtney +1-650-704-3934 cell
