Links for the IBM System 360 Model 30
These links are all 360/30 specific. There is plenty out there on the 360 series in general.
360/30s on display
- The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California
- Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya in Terrassa, Spain
- Remaining System/360s: http://www.ibmsystem3.nl/System360/index.html
360/30 pictures
- This site
- www.punch-card.co.uk
- www.corestore.org
- The Computer History Museum has a 360/30 on display. As far as I know this is the only /30 on public display anywhere - I'd be delighted to know of any others
- 360/30 photos, amongst others
- The Computer. An Illustrated History from Taschen contains several nice photos of the /30 and many other interesting images
- Starring The Computer has a few photos of Model 30s used in films
360/30 information
- IBM's patent 3,315,235 on the /30 design features
- IBM's product profile
- 360/30 info by Ron Mak on Ed Thelen's site and as a MS Word file
- The chapter Microprogramming the IBM System/360 Model 30 by Helmut Weber from Computer Structures, Principles and Examples by Siwiorek, Bell & Newell
- Simon Wheaton-Smith's 360/30 GUI simulator
General 360 information including 360/30
- The original 360 range advertisement from 1964 mirrored from Robert Nix's site
- Dave Nichols' recollections
- IBM illustrations on Lars Poulsen's beagle-ears site
- Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, by Bell & Newell
- Glenn's Computer Museum with /30 front panel and CCROS exhibits - note that this front panel has indicators for extra address bits to allow more than 64k main storage
IBM information on the 360/30 and CCROS
- Specifications
- 1961 article on the use of punch cards for read-only storage
- 1962 article on Card-Capacitor ROS cards
- 1966 paper on the design of the /30 CCROS microcode store
ACM papers
- 1401 compatibility feature on the IBM System/360 model 30 (1965) by McCormack, Schansman & Womack
- A microprogrammed implementation of EULER on IBM system/360 model 30 (1967) by Helmut Weber
IBM Manuals from Al Kossow's Bitsavers site
Note: The links below use the main site, but the Bitsavers homepage lists several mirror sites which you could try using.
- 360/30 Functional Characteristics, PDF 5MB - an overview of the internal organisation
- 360/30 Channel Characteristics, PDF 6MB - Multiplexor and Selector Channel operation, mainly concerned with timings and throughput
- 360/30 Field Engineering Manuals including the FETOM
