Talk:IBM 2741

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[edit] 2741 photograph

Google image search provides three hits for "IBM 2741". Two of these hits are now external references from the article. All three Google hits seem to have different scanned versions of the same photograph. I suspect the photo came from an IBM manual. I asked the person who maintains the acis/history/2741.html page at Columbia. is replay was: "It's not my photo. I have no idea whose it is." It would be nice to have the photo on wiki (columbia U has best scan) if permission could be obtained from IBM or whoever took the photo.Rdmoore6 21:54, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other software

I know that APL\360 supported the 2741 because I wrote the code. There was a DOS system for text-editing which I believe supported the 2741. I cannot remember its name. It is also likely that IMS, GIS and CICS supported the 2741. I cannot verivy this.Rdmoore6 21:54, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

There was a text editing and storage system that used the 2741 called ATS/360 (Administrative Terminal Service?). But it wasn't hosted on DOS/360. I believe, it ran on the same multiprocessing version of OS/360 (MFT?) that hosted APL\360, perhaps even at the same time. Certainly the timesharing company from which we were offered APL services (this was around 1971 or so) also offered ATS.

A few years earlier (1968 or so) I saw a time sharing system offering Fortran capabilities on a 2741. We used the Manifold element with it. I don't know what the host OS or computer was, though. Jeh 07:16, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

In case it is of any interest, from 1972 thru 1975, I wrote CAI modules [subject: organic chemistry nomenclature] using a 2741 connected via a modem and leased line to an IBM 360/155 located at the SUNY Binghamton campus sixty miles west of the CCC campus. I still have that APL typeball somewhere in a box packed away from those days. And wonderful days they were. I should never have left software to go into electrical engineering I can tell you!  :-) JimScott 07:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC)