23 - 27 May 2011
Spent five great days at the Dansk
Computer Museum restoring an IBM 5415 model 15
to operational status. Here is the project blog.
The CPU is now running and can be IPL-ed from the attached 3741.
There was not enough time to repair the IBM 3340. This has to wait for my next visit
to the museum.
11 April 2011
Added background information of BASIC on the model 6 received from Glenn Henry. Thanks !
20 March 2011
Added two IBM System/3 ad's found on eBay
02 Oktober 2010
Received a picture from Marcel Stolz of the remaining S/3 in Bern. Thanks !
Added to the remaing page.
29 July 2010Received some nice S/3 model pictures from Vin Scimone. Thanks ! 27 July 2010Received an email from Alessandro Zuech"I have discovered more than 15 years ago one fully expanded Model 10, including 5445 external disks and the 1403 printer.
Unfortunately, during years some
parts of the system where lost (external disk, printer and printer
controller)."
Hopefully more details and pictures will follow.
17 July 2010Added Greg's extensive memories of the IBM System/3. Thanks !Read here.
14 May 2010
Received an email from Ralf
Buelow, Zentrum für Kultur- und Wissenschaftskommunikation
Kiel, Germany (www.mediendom.de).
They have an IBM 5415 and 3741 from the Bitburger Pils brewery in Bitburg.
08 May 2010
Added some RPG and assembler
program listings to the software page.
02 May 2010
Jørgen Bøgvald
emailed me that he found an
IBM system/3 at the Dansk computer museum
which
was not listed on my Remaining
System page.
See picture.
Thanks Jørgen.
05 April 2010
Started a project to interface
a IBM 5496 with a PC.
I can now read and transfer 96 column cards to PC files,
not only source data but also IPL cards. See demo.
Please contact me if you have IBM 96 columns which you would
to
read .
Added on Youtube a movie
of
the model 15 console in action.
25 February 2010
Added some IBM System/3
related ad's found on Google-News.
See: IBM
ad's
30 Oktober 2009
My System/3 model 15B
has a new home in Germany.
The new owner is Alex Brenner.
08 July 2009
Updated remaining systems web
page after receiving an email from Rochester:
"The System/3 is no longer on display with the other machines that are
displayed at the site."
IBM published a small article on their internal website: "System/3
turns 40"
22 June 2009
Added history of Rochester and
an overview of S/3 in use by the Texas Local Goverment in
1976.
Updated remaining system list.
15 June 2009
Added a webpage with IBM S/3
ad's and promotion material.
13 June 2009
Added webpage IBM S/3
Publications, books & manuals.
Added some IBM internal publications (thanks Dick)
08 June 2009
Full length
restored S/3
promotion movie with sound
uploaded on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2.
07 June 2009
Email from Yves, a model 12
has surfaced in France and has been secured by Frederic Bossu.
27 May 2009
Mike's model 10 is up and
running again. See YouTube.
22 May 2009
Received development team
picture with
names. Thanks Ralph, Dick, Bob !
17 May 2009
Added Dick Trachy contribution
(many thanks) to the history page.
Added a very nice development
team picture.
29 Apr 2009
A new version of the
S/3 SIMH emulator is uploaded and can be found here.
It has support to IPL
stand-alone programs from the MFCU and enhancements to
run CCP.
24 Apr 2009
Received an email from Gil
Carrick. His museum has secured two
S/3.
A model 8(!) and a model 10. Pictures will follow.
18 Apr 2009
Added a comprehensive
overview
of all software and
PRPQ
available for the S/3.
08 Apr 2009
Mike Ross has bought the
below mentioned system.
Added a 5410, 5412, 5415
stored at CHM to the remaining list
27 Mar 2009
Received an email from Brandon
Karr. Her family has somewhere in the
USA a complete model 10 stored.
10 Jan 2009
Found another surviving
System/3 on the internet: Olmsted
County Historical Society Museum in Rochester, Minnesota
Looks like a basic model 10.
29 Dec 2008
Added a picture column to the
remaining systems webpage
28 Dec 2008
Added a link to Youtube: my
model 10 printing some assemble lines.
Added a Model
10 found after some websearch in
Australia.
See: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=53169
26 Dec 2008
Added a page with some model
10 detail information and this blog page..
Re-arranged overview page.
24 Dec 2008
Received an email from Marcel
Stolz of the University of Bern,
Switzerland that they have an IBM system/3
which was not listed
on my Remaining
System page.
"Our IT group is planning to
recompose the whole system in a place
accessable to public an I will be
glad to inform you about the
exact state of the machine, as soon as I
will know more."
Thanks Marcel.
