billdeg
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Hi - I just noticed your post. After the holiday weekend I will check for the modem. I *think* it's in a box nearby...it's been a while.
BD
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Hi - I just noticed your post. After the holiday weekend I will check for the modem. I *think* it's in a box nearby...it's been a while.
BD
pmjett
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Checking back in after a long absence.
Checking back in after a long absence.
Heh. That is ok. I seem to have quite a lag in checking this thread. Coincides with the itch to get the Series/1 out of storage and under power. Sounds like you have made some good progress. Have you had any additional luck getting your Series/1 to boot?
I've got the EDL programmers that live near me- I keep meaning to sit down with him and his wife and a notebook and really try and get some schooling.
Still no display options, so if you find the modem card, I'd love a few specs that will help me locate another one. If there is any information or pictures that I might help you with, I'd be glad to try and help. I think my Series/1 is all wired up (basically just pulled out of service and mothballed)
Thanks again!
Mike
btw,this time I've subscribed to the thread, so hopefully I'll realize when new postings happen.
Checking back in after a long absence.
Heh. That is ok. I seem to have quite a lag in checking this thread. Coincides with the itch to get the Series/1 out of storage and under power. Sounds like you have made some good progress. Have you had any additional luck getting your Series/1 to boot?
I've got the EDL programmers that live near me- I keep meaning to sit down with him and his wife and a notebook and really try and get some schooling.
Still no display options, so if you find the modem card, I'd love a few specs that will help me locate another one. If there is any information or pictures that I might help you with, I'd be glad to try and help. I think my Series/1 is all wired up (basically just pulled out of service and mothballed)
Thanks again!
Mike
btw,this time I've subscribed to the thread, so hopefully I'll realize when new postings happen.
I'm glad to see that there are still some IBM Series 1 running.
I programmed them in the 80s and 90s using Cobol, Fortran end EDL - Event Driven Language and didn't think some of there where still being used.
I even opened an EDL Alumni Group on linkedin, thinking that I would have found only alumni, but it seems that there is still a few people still using it.
I came across this forum, while looking for a picture of a EDL manual cover, to create a logo for the above group. Do you have any that I could use?
If you have any software related question concerning Ibm S1 I will be pleased to help.
I programmed them in the 80s and 90s using Cobol, Fortran end EDL - Event Driven Language and didn't think some of there where still being used.
I even opened an EDL Alumni Group on linkedin, thinking that I would have found only alumni, but it seems that there is still a few people still using it.
I came across this forum, while looking for a picture of a EDL manual cover, to create a logo for the above group. Do you have any that I could use?
If you have any software related question concerning Ibm S1 I will be pleased to help.
pmjett
New Member
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I have a bunch of documentation. Let me look this weekend and see if I can locate any EDL literature. I can scan it and post it. Ultimately I want to scan all of my stuff and get it out onto the net, but that is a project for another day.
Mike
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I have a bunch of documentation. Let me look this weekend and see if I can locate any EDL literature. I can scan it and post it. Ultimately I want to scan all of my stuff and get it out onto the net, but that is a project for another day.
Thanks! I'm sure that at least a couple of us here might have to pick your brain.
Mike
billdeg
Technician
I think I have docs for EDL for the series 1 in IBM binders. My system powers on, but I have no idea how to do anything with it. I have been able to do very little with the Series 1 other than gawk at it like a Australopithecus staring at a monolith that just landed in the forest.
billdeg
Technician
no - not really even sure if I have the correct monitor hooked up, or if it's plugged into the correct slot on the cable backplane. I was told it worked when taken out of production, but I got it partially disassembled.
Wow this is a blast from the past for sure. I can't believe I am now the "old timmer" which is what i use to call the old guys that I worked with when I started with IBM back in 1978.
If you have the diagnostic diskettes, (can't remember what the label is for the basic diskette) you can try IPL'ing to the programmers console, or to a printer device, or terminal device. For example if you had a 4964 printer, which is device type 01, address 64 you would press on the programmers console: stop, stop on address, 1950, store, load, R0, 0164, store, stop on address, start. This will store the device type and address of the printer in address 1950 register 0 and output the IPL information to that device. Also for the 4978 terminal, you need to look at the adapter card jumper address to make sure it is set to right address. Finally I believe MAP 000 is the Start map for checking out the system. You could go there and follow the flow charts.
If you have the diagnostic diskettes, (can't remember what the label is for the basic diskette) you can try IPL'ing to the programmers console, or to a printer device, or terminal device. For example if you had a 4964 printer, which is device type 01, address 64 you would press on the programmers console: stop, stop on address, 1950, store, load, R0, 0164, store, stop on address, start. This will store the device type and address of the printer in address 1950 register 0 and output the IPL information to that device. Also for the 4978 terminal, you need to look at the adapter card jumper address to make sure it is set to right address. Finally I believe MAP 000 is the Start map for checking out the system. You could go there and follow the flow charts.
billdeg
Technician
Please anyone - come help me with this one! The system is set up and ready for an old IBM tech to help!