My first experience with a computer was at HemisFair '68 in San Antonio. IBM
had a pavilion there with a 360/30 driving 8 or so 2260s. It ran a program
that would tell you exactly how old you were, down to the second. Pretty
mundane stuff now, but to an 8-year-old...
I broke into systems work 12 years later, doing MVS on a 370/158AP. It was
fun...but I wanted a box of my own. The long series of PCs I've owned since
then have been fun, but nothing quite captures the flavor of running the big
iron like, well, running the big iron.
That is, until now...
Hercules is a System/370 and ESA/390 emulator which can IPL and execute S/370 and ESA/390 instructions. It can also emulate CKD and FBA DASD, printer, card reader, tape, channel-to-channel adapter, and local non-SNA 3270 devices.
Follow these links to find out more:
Download the current version, 1.69:
If you have any questions or comments,
join the hercules-390 discussion group at
http://www.onelist.com/community/hercules-390
Bug reports (together with your diagnosis of the fault, please) may be sent to me, Jay Maynard, at jmaynard @ conmicro.cx.
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Last updated 29 October 2000