Re: Call for manuals and maybe floppies: IBM 8100

2021-08-28 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 8/28/2021 2:25 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 8/28/21 12:11 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:  also looked at some field service material available on archive.org. Was this different from the docs I have on bitsavers? They have all of bitsavers, but changed the filenames and screwed

Re: Call for manuals and maybe floppies: IBM 8100

2021-08-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 8/28/21 12:11 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: also looked at some field service material available on archive.org. Was this different from the docs I have on bitsavers? They have all of bitsavers, but changed the filenames and screwed up the directory heirarchy. IA is a nightmare

Re: Call for manuals and maybe floppies: IBM 8100

2021-08-28 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 8/26/2021 7:54 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: On 2021-08-26 6:48 p.m., Jay Jaeger via cctech wrote: My next project once I finish my IBM 1410 FPGA implementation (so, a couple of years out, probably) would be to write an emulator for the boat anchor known as the IBM 8100.  I had

Re: Call for manuals and maybe floppies: IBM 8100

2021-08-27 Thread Stan Sieler via cctalk
Re: "My next project once I finish my IBM 1410 FPGA implementation (so, a couple of years out, probably) would be to write an emulator for the boat anchor known as the IBM 8100. I had exposure to these things back in the 1980s." I encountered one, once. Probably 1979, in a small conference room

Re: Call for manuals and maybe floppies: IBM 8100

2021-08-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-08-26 6:48 p.m., Jay Jaeger via cctech wrote: My next project once I finish my IBM 1410 FPGA implementation (so, a couple of years out, probably) would be to write an emulator for the boat anchor known as the IBM 8100.  I had exposure to these things back in the 1980s.  The project

Call for manuals and maybe floppies: IBM 8100

2021-08-26 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
My next project once I finish my IBM 1410 FPGA implementation (so, a couple of years out, probably) would be to write an emulator for the boat anchor known as the IBM 8100. I had exposure to these things back in the 1980s. The project was not really a success: the DPPX operating system was