https://www.ibm360.co.uk/ * Home * Project History * Machine Overview * Support the Project * Meet the Team * In the Media IBM 360 Model 20 Rescue and Restoration Documenting the recovery and restoration of an IBM System 360 Model 20 and potentially an IBM System 370 Model 125 [IMG_0591] The 360's are searching for a new home Adam Bradley / March 16, 2024 Hello! If you're still here reading this blog, I'm impressed. We haven't posted anything of note for some years now and frankly, thats because we haven't done anything of note with the project. The machines have been sitting in their home, virtually untouched, for 4 years now. Chris & I (Adam) are just too busy with our respective professional and personal lives to give them a second look, and we've come to the difficult decision that it's time to look at letting the systems go. When we originally moved the systems to Creslow, part of our agreement was to provide PR visibility for the services offered by ecom. Whilst this initially obviously garnered some visibility, our lack of progress with the project has obviously had... Continue Reading- [IMG_3653-scaled] So it's been a while... Adam Bradley / May 11, 2022 Dear Reader, Wow, it's been a while since our last post here, almost 2 years! Time has totally flown by. I checked the traffic this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see that we're still getting 2,000+ hits per month which is just incredible given that we haven't published any updates. So, I'm guessing you probably want to know whats going on and why we're not posting here. Let me summarily answer your most important questions below: Are all of you okay? - Yes. Is the project dead? - No. Do you have any updates for us? - Unfortunately, not really. So, the reason we haven't been posting here is mainly because, well, nothing has changed. Chris & I have both been insanely busy with... Continue Reading- [Silicon-Glen-TX-1] Silicon Glen, and a COVID-19 Update! Adam Bradley / May 24, 2020 Well, what can I say. It seems as though the last update was a lifetime ago. The world has changed so much! As you might imagine we have been unable to complete any work on the IBM 360 over the last couple of months due to the lockdown restrictions in place in the UK. We are hopeful that in the coming months as the lockdown eases we will be able to return to the project and start posting regular updates again. We have received a few items off of the Amazon wishlist, and I will post the proper thanks in due course, I am currently unable to do so as they get delivered to my fathers house and due to the self isolation policies I... Continue Reading- [IMG_20200301_165051-scaled] The first update of 2020! Adam Bradley / March 2, 2020 We know we're a few months late, but we want to wish all of our readers a happy new year! And to kick off the new year (even if we are a bit late) heres our first post of 2020! We've all been rather busy in our personal and professional lives of late, and as such the updates haven't been as regular as we would have liked. We're hoping to get quite a few days of work in this year, and we promise we'll update you all as much as possible! We all agreed to meet on Sunday the 1st of March to resume work on the machine. We didn't really have any set goals for the day, except to continue cleaning the machine, and... Continue Reading- [PeterCleaning-scaled] More cleaning, investigations, and new team members! Adam Bradley / December 2, 2019 Another week, another blog post! So, there's probably going to be a trend of things in the next few blog posts, and one of them is going to be, well, you guessed it! Cleaning! The machines were all very dirty when the arrived and it's going to take us quite some time to clean the outsides, let alone the insides, so please bear with us whilst we post about it; hopefully you'll find the process as satisfying as we do! Over the past week or so I've been conversing with a chap called Simon Van Winklen about working with us, and very kindly he's volunteering some of his time to come and assist us with the restoration process. Simon is a retired Engineer who's career... Continue Reading- [IMG_0587-1-e1574642700122] Scanning manuals and cleaning machines Adam Bradley / November 25, 2019 So we mentioned in some of our earlier posts that we have a plethora of manuals that we found in the original building. These manuals are a rather obscure size being slightly longer than A3. This makes them very inconvenient to scan as they don't fit on a regular scanner, and as such we needed a much bigger scanner. A0 scanners are particularly scarce, especially on the used market, and they command a high price (usually in the thousands). After browsing eBay for a while I happened upon a listing by a recycling company located fairly near to me for a Colortrac SmartLF Cx40 in unknown condition. For the price (> Support Us Amazon Wishlist Donate via Paypal Authors About the Authors There are 3 main writers who contribute to this restoration blog: [Screenshot-2019-04-27-at-20] Adam Bradley - Adam is a multi-talented engineer who's been involved in the computer history field for over a decade at The National Museum of Computing. Adam wears many hats, but he's primarily a Critical Infrastructure Engineer day to day, and when he's not playing with the backbone of the country or interesting computers, he's probably to be found designing and building something vehicle related. [Screenshot-2019-04-27-at-20] Christopher Blackburn - Chris is an engineer with a strong background in Electronics and Control Systems Engineering, having obtained a Master's degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with Computer Science at UCL. Chris has been involved in many interesting projects in the past, mostly focused around the UK Railway system. Chris has also been involved with The National Museum of Computing for some time. [Screenshot-2019-04-28-at-20] Peter Vaughan - Peter is an engineer currently working in the Medical industry. He also looks after the IBM 1130 which can currently be seen in operation at The National Museum of Computing. Peter volunteers at the National Museum of Computing where he's been a core volunteer for well over a decade. You can meet the rest of the project team members here. Search for: [ ] [Search] Social Media and Feeds * RSS * Twitter Feed * Youtube Recent Posts * The 360's are searching for a new home March 16, 2024 * So it's been a while... May 11, 2022 * Silicon Glen, and a COVID-19 Update! May 24, 2020 Archives * March 2024 * May 2022 * May 2020 * March 2020 * December 2019 * November 2019 * October 2019 * May 2019 * RSS * Twitter Feed * Youtube Copyright (c) All rights reserved.