IBM 1130 arrived from Austria

[Christian Corti]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, woodelf wrote:
> You could still have a system disk, locked in the drive.

On the photo there's no disk in the drive.

> Other than power,I think you have two other major problems.
> 1) 8192 words of memory
> 2) No card reader/punch

And some more:
3) No 1132 printer (main output device, the console is hardly used by any 
program)
4) No card decks with the disk boot loader and application programs

Especially the lack of 2) and 3) make the unit quite useless for the 
moment. You need to find a 1442 card reader/punch and the 1132 printer.
Of course you can program your own disk operating system that works 
without cards and printer, just with the console. But then you're missing 
all the print sets.

What is the serial number of the machine? Are there cartridges 
with interesting looking software? I can make 1130 2310-cartridge dumps to 
a file on a modern computer (usable e.g. with SIMH), but our machine is in 
Germany...

BTW. is there ANY other 1130 in fully working order? I know Brian Knittel 
has a machine but I think it's not working yet. It's the same as with the 
LGP-30, there are some people who own such a machine but don't get them to 
work...

Christian