2002 (was:: Looking for pointers to old Control Data software)

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Thu Jan 21 18:25:54 1999

Hi John,

> you are certainly welcome to it - after all its only bits and not a single
> atom,
> so it can be copied easily. However, there is no documentation apart from
> source code comments - it's a (hopefully) portable C program plus some
> ASCII data files, so it should run on anything that has a C-compiler.

Lets see :)

> Since your address makes me believe that you are affiliated with Siemens
> Munich,
> and since I live in Munich too, maybe we just get together and discuss this ?

Jep, fixed for shure.

> The simulator maps core and drum to RAM arrays, papertape input and output
> to File I/O, and the console to keyboard/screen.

I cant wait to see the source code :)

> It would be neat to interface to
> a real S2002 console - there are at least two in Munich, one at the Siemens
> museum and one at the Deutsche Museum; maybe that would be a fun project
> to try one of these to agree to that proposal ?????

Maybe, althrough I think, at least at the Deutsches Museum, they
don't treat their computers as they should - my favourated project
would be to get the Deutsches Museum 2002 back to work, eventualy
with an exception of the drum, which should be replaced by a small
(invisible) modern single chip controller to simulate it, since
spining up every day for demonstration purpose wasn't possible even
back when the machine was new.

Anyway - great accident.

Servus
H.

--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 18:25:54 GMT

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