Burroughs B6700 OS

[Niklas Karlsson]

Hi all,

I received the following message on the TUHS (The Unix Heritage Society)
mailing list, and I suppose they sent it there as a long shot even
though it's not UNIX, since there are a lot of greybeards there. I
replied recommending to post here, but I haven't seen any posts from
them, so I'll reproduce it here:

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There's so much experience here, I thought someone might know:

"Our goal is to develop an emulator for the Burroughs B6700 system. We
need help to find a complete release of MCP software for the Burroughs
B6700.

If you have old magnetic tapes (magtapes) in any format, or computer
printer listings of software or micro-fiche, micro-film, punched-card
decks for any Burroughs B6000 or Burroughs B7000 systems we would like
to hear from you.

Email n...@retroComputingTasmania.com"

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I know we have at least one newsgroup member who worked for Burroughs in
the 1980s - any input?

Best regards,
Niklas
--
When being picked up against their will by larger creatures, cats and human
children share not only the ability to temporarily sprout extra limbs and
perform incredible acts of contortionism, but also to temporarily increase their
weight.

[Scott Lurndal]

Niklas Karlsson <ank...@yahoo.se> writes:
>Hi all,
>
>I received the following message on the TUHS (The Unix Heritage Society)
>mailing list, and I suppose they sent it there as a long shot even
>though it's not UNIX, since there are a lot of greybeards there. I
>replied recommending to post here, but I haven't seen any posts from
>them, so I'll reproduce it here:
>
>----------
>
>There's so much experience here, I thought someone might know:
>
>"Our goal is to develop an emulator for the Burroughs B6700 system. We
>need help to find a complete release of MCP software for the Burroughs
>B6700.
>
>If you have old magnetic tapes (magtapes) in any format, or computer
>printer listings of software or micro-fiche, micro-film, punched-card
>decks for any Burroughs B6000 or Burroughs B7000 systems we would like
>to hear from you.
>
>Email n...@retroComputingTasmania.com"
>
>----------
>
>I know we have at least one newsgroup member who worked for Burroughs in
>the 1980s - any input?

Only that I'm also looking for old software for the B3500/B4700/V380 (aka medium)
systems.... I've been in touch with the large systems folks down-under.

B6700 descends from the B5500 line.

Old burroughs software is difficult to find. I did hear about someone
finding some B220 software recently.

[Peter Flass]

Niklas Karlsson <ank...@yahoo.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I received the following message on the TUHS (The Unix Heritage Society)
> mailing list, and I suppose they sent it there as a long shot even
> though it's not UNIX, since there are a lot of greybeards there. I
> replied recommending to post here, but I haven't seen any posts from
> them, so I'll reproduce it here:
>
> ----------
>
> There's so much experience here, I thought someone might know:
>
> "Our goal is to develop an emulator for the Burroughs B6700 system. We
> need help to find a complete release of MCP software for the Burroughs
> B6700.
>
> If you have old magnetic tapes (magtapes) in any format, or computer
> printer listings of software or micro-fiche, micro-film, punched-card
> decks for any Burroughs B6000 or Burroughs B7000 systems we would like
> to hear from you.
>
> Email n...@retroComputingTasmania.com"
>
> ----------
>
> I know we have at least one newsgroup member who worked for Burroughs in
> the 1980s - any input?
>
> Best regards,
> Niklas

I started to think “someone in Tasmania is working on this”, and then
noticed that it was their question. The 5500 MCP source is available, but
the 6700 is a different beastie.

--
Pete

[kgx...@yahoo.com]

I also am looking for complete binary or source for B6700 MCP. I also would like to do an emulator for this machine. I have done one for the B5500. Please forward anything you find to me.

Rich

[Robin Vowels]

On Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 8:05:02 AM UTC+11, Peter Flass wrote:
> Niklas Karlsson <ank...@yahoo.se> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I received the following message on the TUHS (The Unix Heritage Society)
> > mailing list, and I suppose they sent it there as a long shot even
> > though it's not UNIX, since there are a lot of greybeards there. I
> > replied recommending to post here, but I haven't seen any posts from
> > them, so I'll reproduce it here:
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > There's so much experience here, I thought someone might know:
> >
> > "Our goal is to develop an emulator for the Burroughs B6700 system. We
> > need help to find a complete release of MCP software for the Burroughs
> > B6700.
> >
> > If you have old magnetic tapes (magtapes) in any format, or computer
> > printer listings of software or micro-fiche, micro-film, punched-card
> > decks for any Burroughs B6000 or Burroughs B7000 systems we would like
> > to hear from you.
> >
> > Email n...@retroComputingTasmania.com"
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > I know we have at least one newsgroup member who worked for Burroughs in
> > the 1980s - any input?

.

> I started to think “someone in Tasmania is working on this”, and then
> noticed that it was their question. The 5500 MCP source is available, but
> the 6700 is a different beastie.

.
The University of Tasmania used to run a B6700.
I have a hardware reference manual somewhere.
Richard Watkins was a contact there, might have something.

[Robert Boyer]

One of the first computers I ever used, my school had one = B6900 with
crap tons of terminals everywhere on campus. I actually liked that
machine a lot once I got a hold of the manuals NOT published by the
school for what I would assume were school admin workers and actually
figured out how to use that system instead of the idiotic menu that
everyone got with normal accounts when they logged in.