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| ARTICLES RELATED TO System/34 | | | |  System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTSThe four red lights on the System/34 were as follows: (1) Power check. (2) Processor check. (3) Program check. (4) Console check.
If any of the first three lights ever come on, the system must be IPLed. Console can be restored if it has been powered off, but the other conditions are unrecoverable.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS. IPL - Initial Program Load
Starting or restarting the system. This acronym was pronounced eye-pee-ell and was used as a verb ("IPL the system") with past tense ("then we IPLed") and present tense ("while we were IPLing") and so forth - as well as a noun ("after the next IPL.")
PTF - Program Temporary Fix
IBM would distribute bug fixes on diskettes called PTF diskettes. By applying PTFs, you were able to address known and often unknown software problems. When the next release was issued (S/34's last release was Rel ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS. |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - IBM Colors
Before 1984, the 5251 monitor predominated - it was US$2,000 and what IBM called "dual color" (green and bright green). However, by 1984, the IBM 3180 terminal helped usher in the grand new age of IBM Color - seven colors (pink, red, blue, yellow, green, white, and turquoise.) By 1984, the price of the 3180 terminals was under US$2,000, though there was a fancy graphics-capable terminal tha ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - IBM Colors |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Programming IBM Colors
Interestingly, programming colors did not require a new screen programming language, because the implementation was completely at the hardware level. A protocol called the IBM 5250 Data Stream interpreted field attributes such as blinking, non-display, high intensity, reverse image, underline, and column separators and was used in combination to create colors. Normal text was presented as green on a 3180 color terminal, but high intensity became white. Column separators became yellow. Blinking became red. Underlined text was presented as blue. High intensity blinking became pink ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Programming IBM Colors |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Memory and Disk
The smallest S/34 had 48K of RAM and an 8.6 MB hard drive. (That's 48 kilobytes... less than some modern calculators. And the mammoth 12-inch hard drive spindle could be replaced by the storage capacity of a JumpDrive.)
The largest configured S/34 could support 256K of RAM and 256MB of disk space. This cost over US$200,000 back in the early 1980s. S/34 hard drives contained a feature called "the extra cylinder," so that bad spots on the drive were detected and dynamically mapped out to good spots on the extra cylinder... so technically while the system could not address more than ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Memory and Disk |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Printers
A great computer system wouldn't be complete without great printers. Typical System/34 offerings would include:
IBM 5211 - A band printer rated at somewhere around 160 lines per minute (LPM).
IBM 4214 - An early dot-matrix printer rated at 200 or so characters per second (CPS).
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Printers |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Processors
S/34s had two processors, the CSP or Control Storage Processor, and the MSP or Main Storage Processor. The MSP was the workhorse; it performed the instructions in the computer programs. The CSP was the governor; it performed system functions in the background. Special utility programs were able to make direct calls to the CSP to perform certain functions; these are usually system programs like $CNFIG which was used to configure the computer system. These two processors worked in tandem, and it's one reason the S/34 worked so well.
In today's PC-based world, think of the S/34 as having the processor equi ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Processors |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP The CNFIGSSP procedure was used to configure the system, including the devices. Each device is assigned a two-character ID. The first letter must be alphabetic; the second must be alphameric. The system also reserved certain IDs; you can't call your device I1 or F1, for example. I1 is the name of the diskette drive; F1 is what the system calls the hard drive (stands for "fixed disk," since it's not a removable disk pack.)
Use CNFIGSSP to place your devices on the line/address map; identify the particular IBM printer or terminal model; assign characteristics such as console, alternate co ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - The Five Lights
On a 5251 type terminal, there were five lights to watch for:
(1) System Available light. If lit, this terminal is connected to the S/34 and is receiving information from it.
(2) Message Waiting light. Other users, and the system itself, can send messages to workstations. If lit, there is at least 1 message that has not seen yet. When a program ends or when the user signs on, the message(s) will be shown.
(3) Insert. The Insert key has been pressed. Characters after the cursor while shift right when text is ke ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - The Five Lights |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Setting the Address Up to 32 devices could be configured on a System/34, using four lines numbered from 0 to 3. A line was defined as a series of twinaxial cables attached to devices with IN and OUT ports. Eight devices could be configured per line; these were numbered 0 through 7.
Three binary switches on every device were used for the terminal's address (the physical designation of a particular terminal on a particular line.) Sometimes, the switches were numbered 1, 2, and 4. In o ...
See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - Setting the Address |
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| | | | | System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System SSP ("System Support Program") was the only operating system of the S/34. It contained support for multiprogramming, multiple processors, 36 devices, job queues, printer queues, security, indexed file support, and fully installed, it was about 5MB.
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See also:System/34, System/34 - Physical Appearance And Requirements, System/34 - THE FOUR LIGHTS, System/34 - CRAZY ACRONYMS., System/34 - SSP - System Support Product, System/34 - F1 I1 S1-S3 and M1.01 - M2.10, System/34 - EBCDIC, System/34 - SDA - Screen Design Aid, System/34 - SORT - The system sort utility, System/34 - SEU - Source Entry Utility, System/34 - Terminals Displays Screens Workstations and Monitors, System/34 - IBM Colors, System/34 - Programming IBM Colors, System/34 - The Five Lights, System/34 - Configuring Your Devices, System/34 - Dipswitches, System/34 - Setting the Address, System/34 - Configuring Using CNFIGSSP, System/34 - Processors, System/34 - Memory and Disk, System/34 - Printers, System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System, System/34 - System Security, System/34 - Files And Libraries, System/34 - Disk Space Metrics, System/34 - Program Sizes, System/34 - Caching, System/34 - SPOOLING, System/34 - The Need For Spooling, System/34 - How Spooling Works, System/34 - When You Can't Spool, System/34 - Forms Numbers, System/34 - ALIGNMENT, System/34 - More Crazy Acronyms - MRTs SRTs NRTs NEPs and NOPs, System/34 - Language Compilers, System/34 - Other Object Types, System/34 - Did I Have To Program?, System/34 - Popular System/34 Applications, System/34 - System/34 Magazines, System/34 - Migrating to the System/36 Read more here: » System/34: Encyclopedia II - System/34 - SSP The System/34 Operating System |
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