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Looking for CPF for the IBM System/38

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epitaxial

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Just throwing this out there. Does anyone have a set of CPF diskettes for the IBM System/38? A complete set is pretty large 30-40 in total. Thanks.
 
Mike Ross, of the "Corestore", owns (or once owned, at any rate)
a System/38:

He claimed "System came with a very full set of software, tapes, disks,
and manuals - including the maintenance MAPs and MIMs."

So it seems likely that a copy CPF **exists**. Whether or not
it would be shareable is another story -- IBM has been very
protective of the IP of their AS/400 line, and the System/38
was the ancestor of that line. It's unlikely that anything
involved with the System/38 -- even the documentation -- is
in the public domain (though some, even of the ostensibly
"restricted" manuals, seem fairly recently to have shown
up on Bitsavers:
 
jfehlinger said:
Mike Ross, of the "Corestore", owns (or once owned, at any rate)
a System/38:

He claimed "System came with a very full set of software, tapes, disks,
and manuals - including the maintenance MAPs and MIMs."

So it seems likely that a copy CPF **exists**. Whether or not
it would be shareable is another story -- IBM has been very
protective of the IP of their AS/400 line, and the System/38
was the ancestor of that line. It's unlikely that anything
involved with the System/38 -- even the documentation -- is
in the public domain (though some, even of the ostensibly
"restricted" manuals, seem fairly recently to have shown
up on Bitsavers:
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Ya, some Gov't dept. and some business did include the system manuals and disk when they sold the units off as surplus, unless their site license excluded them from doing so. Back then they worn't worry about user/customer information that may still be intaked, as any good system refurbished would wipe the user data off the system before they resold it.
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As for the CPF diskettes for the IBM System/38 , ya complete set is pretty large 30-40 in total so you might have to try to contact another System/38 owner for help. (, including asking some museums with a system). But that is usually a dead end even with a large $$$ donation to the museum.
Do you have a System/38 compatible tape drive? If so, you might be able to get a Tape copy of the diskette done.
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Sorry I can't help.
 
epitaxial said:
Just throwing this out there. Does anyone have a set of CPF diskettes for the IBM System/38? A complete set is pretty large 30-40 in total. Thanks.
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I have included a small reply in a another message about the Corestore collection: IBM System/38 entry. But other then that, I can't help much.
 
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