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Video series about SCEPSIS

Posted on2019-07-182019-07-18

I’m in the process of producing a viedo series about my Simple CPU emulator, SCEPSIS. You can find the expaning playlist here: playlist for SCEPSIS videos… Read the rest

CategoriesComputer organization, Education, Operating Systems, System fundamentals

SCEPSIS

Posted on2019-05-252019-06-113 Comments

Have a look at my new project, the ‘Simple CPU Emulation Program (Student Instruction System)‘… SCEPSIS control panel… Read the rest

CategoriesComputer organization, Education, System fundamentals

MTS up and running

Posted on2018-12-192019-03-23

Today I got my copy of MTS (Michigan Terminal System) and installed it in Hercules on my Raspberry Pi model 2, using the try-mts cookbook. See this page for more info on MTS. Below you will find a screenshot of the up and running system.… Read the rest

CategoriesComputer organization, Education, Operating Systems

TotemDuino connected to MacBook!

Posted on2017-12-14

TotemDuino connected to MacBook! After some mailing back and forth with the Totem team, they found a solution. Oddly enough, it’s a solution I tried, but it did not work the first time. It appears one has to install the Prolific USB-to-Serial drivers. Installation log Here’s what I did now:… Read the rest

CategoriesEducation, Electronics, Makers, Problem Solving

Totem Mini Lab – testing the Side Panel 1

Posted on2017-12-08

Totem Mini Lab – testing the Side Panel 1 The Side Panel 1 is powered from the Mini Lab board, using both its 3,3 Volt and the 5 Volt connections. NOTE: it is very important to set the Side Panel 1 to the same voltage as has been set in… Read the rest

CategoriesControl, Education, Electronics, Makers, Review

Totem Mini Lab – Side Panel 1

Posted on2017-12-05

Totem Mini Lab – Side Panel 1 I suppose in thanks for my review and for making contact between the Totem team and a Dutch distributor, they decided to send me a pre-production version of their Side Panel 1. Functions It’s a board with a couple of  functions that make… Read the rest

CategoriesControl, Education, Electronics, Makers

Totem Mini Lab – first review

Posted on2017-12-03

Totem Mini Lab – first review A couple of weeks ago I came across the site of Totem. They make interesting stuff! Amongst other things they produce what they call a “Totem mini Lab” (see picture on the right, click for larger image). This seems a good setup for lesson… Read the rest

CategoriesConstruction, Education, Electronics, Makers, Review

There’s no standard like your own standard

Posted on2017-11-15

There’s no standard like your own standard Because more than one person can be working on the program of a MINDSTORMS robot at our school, International School Eerde, I devised a standard that every robot builder has to adhere to. This makes it possible to work on the programming for… Read the rest

CategoriesControl, Education

Real robots don’t drive straight

Posted on2017-11-15

Real robots don’t drive straight This is the title of a publication by Fred G. Martin of the Computer Science department of the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. Basically, what he is trying to tell us is that sometimes we tend to cut corners and hide the interesting stuff from… Read the rest

CategoriesControl, Education, Problem Solving

IoT : Internet of Things – Raspberry Pi Zero W

Posted on2017-10-25

Raspberry Pi Zero W Wow… I say again: wow… I keep getting amazed by the sheer size of credit-card sized computers. The newest one (that I know of) is the Raspberry Pi Zero W. See picture on there right. For you to be able to see the size I made… Read the rest

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In this part of the site you will find info on the computers I owned and worked with, as well as general info about computer systems. HP 2000 I started out on a Hewlett Packard HP2000. That was on my Technical School (HTS in Dutch), where I studied Telecommunications and… Read the rest

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S/370

IBM Mainframes IBM mainframes, and especially the ones under 370 architecture, have a warm spot in my heart. For most of my technical carrier I’ve been working on these magnificent machines. Their operating systems are unbelievably efficient as compared to the bloatware we see floating around today. My first experience:… Read the rest

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Construction Building models of reality in which we can test our control programs. For this we can use all kinds of construction tools. I grew up using LEGO, and later on added Fisher Technik.  … Read the rest

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S/370 printing to PDF

S/370 printing Wouldn’t we all like to have our S/370 output out of Hercules look like this? MVS print-outsVM/370 printouts How do we do that? There’s quite a bit of tinkering involved. I will do my best to describe how I did it below and on a few other pages.… Read the rest

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S/370 Operating Systems

So, let’s talk OS’s. There’s a number of them in the public domain that I know of. I’ll mention some of them below, describe them  briefly and point you to more extensive information and downloadable versions. MVS3.8j MVS, or Multiple Virtual Storage, is an OS that is used in the… Read the rest

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Hercules is the name of an emulator program that simulates being an IBM mainframe. It can host each of IBM’s public domain OS’s, OS/VS1, MVS3.8j and VM370. Hercules runs on a lot of hardware, under Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Hercules has quite a history, ultimately culminating in the version brought… Read the rest

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SCEPSIS

Simple CPU Emulator Program (Student Instruction System). That is the name of my new project. The idea stems from my hardware project, the 8bit computer. I thought, well, if this s possible in hardware, perhaps I can make a software version to give other people the chance to experiment with… Read the rest

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My wood workshop

Since a couple of weeks I am improving my woodworking workshop. We live in a house that used to belong to the village blacksmith, so it has two large annexes, one of which houses my workshop. It contained and old workbench, an old toolboard and a cupboard full of woodworms.… Read the rest

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      • Hercules from binaries
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      • Hercules from source on RPi
      • Install SDL Hyperion with NJE support
    • S/370 Operating Systems
    • MVS – Multiple Virtual Storage
      • Installing MVS 3.8 from tapes
      • Customize MVS logon screen
      • MVS in one picture
      • Clear MVS log files
      • MVS shutdown
      • Force JES2 to go down
    • VM/370 – Virtual Machine
      • Customise VM Logon screen
      • VM / RSCS with NJE
    • S/370 printing to PDF
      • MVS3.8j TK4- printouts
      • VM/370 printouts
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      • System/370 Reference Summary
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      • IBM Reference Card | COBOL
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