moshix delivers an IBM S/370 and tours a mainframe data center - M112

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  • In this video you see me hand-delivering an IBM S/370 model 148 to the lucky winner of my mainframe quiz from video M100: • Mainframe quiz - Win a...
    Then I go see a data center where there are these mainframes still operating and running programs today:
    IBM 1401 with tapes and 1403 printer and a 1411 disk unit
    IBM 360 model 20 with 1403 printers and 2311 disk
    IBM 370 model 125 (512KB storage) with a 2311 disk and a 3211 printer
    IBM 9370 model 40 with 3370 FBA disk and 16MB ram to run VSE/SP
    I also got several dozen pages of 1403 output from DOS/VS and from a 1401 program.
    Overall this was an amzing trip. Made tons of new friends and had crazy fun.
    thanks to all
    Our community FB page is at moshixchannel
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  • @harley311255
    @harley311255 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks, Moshix for joining us in Germany and especially thanks to your contribution to our meeting of the Academic Mainframe Consortium! It was a great pleasure to have you here at the IBM lab in Boeblingen and we all hope to see you soon again.

  • @pparadigm
    @pparadigm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks, nice to see these machines.

  • @franzbernasek4058
    @franzbernasek4058 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love the ibm 360/370 in the early 70 i have learn programming on this systems with punch-card

  • @DavidDHahn
    @DavidDHahn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ausgezeichnet! What a beautiful piece of hardware.

  • @oliverobi5496
    @oliverobi5496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very nice Video :-) regards from Germany O.Obi

  • @n2185x
    @n2185x 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The German location of the datacenter makes this obligatory:
    ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
    Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
    😀

  • @AmauryJacquot
    @AmauryJacquot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    those bus and tag cables are very thin !

  • @dietermontanez6576
    @dietermontanez6576 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    moshix .. can I get the stencil for that raspi cover?

  • @grappydingus
    @grappydingus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Замечательно! Enjoy your mainframe! Makes me wonder what the Russian clone of the 370 was? I'm guessing they had one.

    • @grigorytrenin8430
      @grigorytrenin8430 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The series was called "ЕС ЭВМ".
      S/360 = ЕС ЭВМ-1 series
      S/370 = ЕС ЭВМ-2 series
      And example of particular models are ЕС-1065 or ЕС-1045, both are S/370 clones.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM (russian version has more info)

    • @stonent
      @stonent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@moshixmainframechannel Every assembly instruction you do not give me.... I cut off a finger... Mine or yours? YOURS!

    • @vmisev
      @vmisev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ЕС ЭВМ (ES EVM)
      ES-1066, 1086 IBM-3033
      ES-1061 IBM-370/158
      ES-1060 IBM-370/158
      ES-1055 IBM-370/155
      ES-1046 IBM-3031
      ES-1045 IBM-3031
      ES-1036 IBM-370/148
      ES-1035 IBM-370/138
      ES-1033 IBM-370/145
      ES-1022 IBM-360/50
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM
      "Pioneers of Soviet Computing" by Boris Nikolaevich Malinovsky (pdf):
      www.sigcis.org/files/SIGCISMC2010_001.pdf

  • @KameraShy
    @KameraShy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Times have sure changed. Just drop into Moscow, deliver a computer to a Russian correspondent and munch on some pizza at a trendy bistro. I am old enough to remember when something like that would have been inconceivable.

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So true

    • @nadir.salinas4584
      @nadir.salinas4584 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And now, after just 3 years, it would be again inconceivable...so sad

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Indeed. I was thinking the same when I rewatched this video the other day. The time are achanging.

  • @jack417k
    @jack417k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey Moshix, you mentioned you worked on the 9370. I was a hardware designer on pieces of that from 82-86. I worked on the I/O bus interface chips and the M68000 based I/O processor. Also worked with the HW team in Endicott and Rochester. I am still at IBM. What did you work on ?

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      My employer has purchase a bunch of the 9370s to run VSE and CICS with an application we had written in several offices around the world.

    • @jack417k
      @jack417k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@moshixmainframechannel I see. As you might know, the low end of that machine was originally going to be something very different. The microprocessor is a RISC engine and a new OS was going to be written to allow it to replace the low end 370, s/36,s/38, and 8100 systems. This turned out to be too ambitious, so an emulator (like Hercules) was run on it to become the 9370. Similar hardware also became the as/400. The processor team moved to Austin to design the RS/6000 with a slightly different RISC architecture.

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes there were always rumors about that. And the performance kind of showed it :-)

    • @jack417k
      @jack417k 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@moshixmainframechannel exactly.

    • @stonent
      @stonent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So the Wikipedia article says the 9370 was "compatible with the S/370" just as the one for the 4300 was "compatible with the S/370" What made it merely "compatible" and not sold under the S/370 name? Was the compatability at the software level only but cards were unique or what?

  • @MrKurtHaeusler
    @MrKurtHaeusler 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So is this some museum people can visit? My kids would like this.

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry but it’s not a museum and it’s not accessible to the public. And I am not even allowed to say where it is. But that’s why we have the videos. Make sure to visit also the moshix mainframe channel page on FB for more videos from that visit

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's an IBM 1401 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, USA open to the public.
      Ken Ross and Paul Laughton demo the IBM 1401 th-cam.com/video/VQueCt114Gk/w-d-xo.html
      IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II th-cam.com/video/uFQ3sajIdaM/w-d-xo.html
      Debugging the 1959 IBM 729 Vacuum Column Tape Drive th-cam.com/video/7Lh4CMz_Z6M/w-d-xo.html
      IBM 1401 mainframe runs "Edith" th-cam.com/video/LtlrITxB5qg/w-d-xo.html

    • @linuxfreck
      @linuxfreck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@moshixmainframechannel this collection used to be the IBM Museum in Sindelfingen, Germany. I was lucky enough to visit it in 2011 and have a 2 hour guided tour there. But IBM management sold the building in 2013 and wanted all this equipment to be scrapped (!). There are still quite a few articles on it available in the Web, so I'm not sure why this is supposed to be secret. The IBM client center at the Lab in Böblingen jumped in and put all the equipment into one of their data centers. As a fun fact, this is now in an active data center and all equipment is regularly tested for electrical code compliance. Hence you see 1950 tube equipment with stickers saying that they are tested to be code compliant until 2020 etc. Since then though, the museum is only accessible to IBM clients on a visit to this site, as it is within the lab security perimeter and people need to be signed in, badges need to be handed out etc.
      If you happen to have more footage, please post it here as a separate video, this is probably the most comprehensive collection of working IBM hardware and has the full genealogy beginning with the 1890 Hollerith tabulating machine. You only showed a very small part of the entire thing. This should really get a better audience compared to just a part of a trip report. I don't think there is anything comparable available in youtube yet. Plus, IBM has announced that it would close the IBM Lab in the next few years, so god knows what's happening with the hardware given that they already tried to scrap it.

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was asked to not tell about it (and it’s not a museum !) and to not show too much. So I abide by the rules

    • @MrKurtHaeusler
      @MrKurtHaeusler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@linuxfreck Very interesting, I am in that neighborhood (or was until recently) quite regularly. I should see if I have any IBM contacts that can get me in :-)

  • @Lehander100
    @Lehander100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Григорий
    Привет))) поздравляю)

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Я тоже!

    • @Lehander100
      @Lehander100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      moshix sorry
      I congratulated Grygoriy :)
      Of course I congratulate you too for your contribution on the TH-cam

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, I meant “me too” am congratulating Grigory !! I don’t need congrats but thanks a lot :-)

    • @grigorytrenin8430
      @grigorytrenin8430 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Спасибо! :)

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope to see you on my next visit !!

  • @bjarnenilsson80
    @bjarnenilsson80 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice video, but the nstional enthem was wrong, you used the USSR anthem, not the Russian one

    • @moshixmainframechannel
      @moshixmainframechannel  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know. And I didn’t imply it was the current anthem. The song I played after was soviet, also

    • @bjarnenilsson80
      @bjarnenilsson80 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      moshix never mind that part of the commrntnwasca prain fart in my part, anyway nice vid

  • @richardwargo5201
    @richardwargo5201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, other than fact that everyone is speaking some aboriginal form of Klingon, you'd think you were on Earth.

    • @richardwargo5201
      @richardwargo5201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But I do so enjoy your videos, Moshix, they bring back a lot of fond memories.