IBM 1130's

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sun Jun 17 17:50:37 2001

"Brian Knittel" <brian_at_quarterbyte.com> wrote:
> Are there any IBM 1130 aficionados out there?

Sort of. CHAC has one, and someone not-on-the-list and I were ogling
it a couple or three months ago before we got sidetracked by our day
jobs.

Summary: 1131 processor w/8KW, 1442 card read/punch, 1132 printer,
several disc cartridges, several drawers full of card decks, about
three boxes of manuals.

Among other things, this got me interested enough to track down and
read parts of _Programming the IBM 1130 and 1800_ by Robert K. Louden,
which goes into enough detail about the 1130/1800 instruction set(s)
that I think a simulation of the CPU would not be very hard.

No idea where to go to find an 029. They felt antiquated to some of
us in college in 1981, and the ones I knew about then appeared to be
leased so vanished promptly when no longer needed. Then the college
found some 026s for the EE students to use.

On the other hand, I think that in 1990 I saw some things that looked
like 029s, but were controlled and used as punches by an attached
computer. These were in a GE plant in Fort Wayne, IN.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun Jun 17 2001 - 17:50:37 BST