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Wanted: Big iron geeks to help restore IBM 360 mainframe rescued from defunct German factory by other big iron geeks

Dave 32
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Re: Just bunged them a tenner

"I tweaked a 1401 emulator written in 360 assembler to run most of these programs on the 360."

But, did you know that certain models of the S/360 offered special microcode to allow it to think that it was a 1401, as well as some other systems?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360#Backward_compatibility

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