Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kvue.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!kvue!stone From: stone@kvue.UUCP (Anthony Stone) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: The Compleat IBM 370 Model 69 Features and Devices List Message-ID: <174@kvue.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 17:34:45 EST Article-I.D.: kvue.174 Posted: Thu Apr 18 17:34:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Apr-85 08:37:25 EST References: <270@npois.UUCP> <470@x.UUCP> Lines: 97 I was cleaning out the file cabinet the other day and lo and behold, look what I found. Bill Richard at Charles River, this is for you. _______________________________________________________________________________ IBM 370 MODEL 69 FEATURES AND DEVICES (Downward Compatible with IBM 360/69)* INPUT-OUTPUT ARITHMETIC ------------ ---------- Early Card Lace Accumulate Trivia Feed Card and Jam Triple-Pack Decimal Read Card and Scramble Data Add Improper Backspace Card Reader Add and Reset to Zero Backspace Disk Subtract and Reset to Zero Read Print and Blush Multiply and Lose Precision Eat Card Divide and Overflow Update in Place on Card Divide and Conquer Read Invalid Data Abnormalized Floating Point Erase Card Punch Sinking Point Arithmetic Punch Disk Sliding Point Arithmetic Punch Operator Vanishing Point Arithmetic Fruit Punch Read Chaos DATA MANIPULATION Read Unhappy Macnam ----------------- Stacker Upset Print and Smear Move and Lost Record Forms Skip and Run Away Move and Wrap Core Scatter Print Move Continuous Print and Break Chain Move Devious Print and Cut Ribbon Gulp and Store Bytes Stacker Select Disk Bump and Clean Bytes Rewind and Break Tape Move Bowels Stretch Tape Move and Drop Bits Make Tape Invalid Circulate Memory Write Past End of Tape Convert to Garbage Read and Write While Flipping Tape Load and Clean Core Write Noise Record Memory Bank Holdup Write New Hit Record Read Inter-Record Gap SPECIAL AND CUSTOM FEATURES Update and Erase Record --------------------------- Slip Disk Seek Record and Scar Disk 1401 Incompatibility Hide and Seek 407 Emulation Eject Disk 370 Finulation Write to Protected Files 370 Immolation Read Count Key and Garbage Read-In Only Storage Write Count Key and Garbage Chinese Character Set Garbage Count Key and Read Execute Invalid Op-Code Burst Selector Channel Concoct Data Scatter Multiplexor Channel Pessimising Software Skip to Random Channel Random-Bug Generator Scramble Channel (Plant Installation Only) Change Channels Uncouple CPUs and Branch Reverse Drum Immediate Virtueless Memory Snare Drum Memory Prosthesis Sharpen Light Pencil Memory Left Shift and Branch Random Access Card I/O Reduce Throughput (Tech's Favorite) Convert to Roman Numerals (Italy Only) LOGIC AND CONTROL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Illogical OR Load Operator Illogical AND Byte Operator Why Immediate Execute Operator Branch on Index Missing Ignore Supervisor Call Branch and Loop Continuous Call Supervisor Names Branch on Programmer Debugging Trap Secretary and Halt Lose Message and Branch Byte and Run Develop Ineffective Address Destroy Storage Protect Key Transfer and Lose Return Scramble Program Status Word Branch on Power Off Pack Program Status Word Swipe "Emergency Pull" Knob Electrocute DP Manager and Branch Branch on Burned Out Indicator Inquire and Ignore Branch on Blinking Indicator Reverse Parity and Branch Branch on Bug Branch on Operator Sleepy Bug on Branch Branch on Operator Desperate Branch on CE Ground Branch and Disconnect Memory Halt and Catch Fire (Privileged Op) Invert Record and Branch Reinitialize Meter Evacuate Memory Branch on Chip Box Full Generate Machine Check Branch on Phase of the Moon Generage Machine Check and Cash Branch on Donder on Blitzen Generate Machine Check and Bounce Byte Baudy Bit and Branch *Upward compatible with other 370 models. Crossword compatible with other 360's. Awkward compatible with earlier systems. --- Anthony Stone, KVUE-TV {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!kvue!stone