 Overview: See the MTS Article on Wikipedia for a good overview of MTS, its architecture, and the sites that developed and ran it. Software: See the MTS Distributions section of this Web site for information on the avalability of MTS software and to download MTS Distributions. E-Mail list: Announcements, news items, and updates related to MTS are sent to the e-mail group MTS-Interest@umich.edu a few times a year. If you would like to be added to the group, send a note to mts-comments@umich.edu. Web Site: This web site was created by Jeff Ogden and is administered by Jeff, Gavin Eadie, and Mike Alexander. The "official" URL to use to reach this site is: http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org. Contribute: Anyone can view the contents of this archive, but only members of the Google Groups' group "# (Pound Sign)" can create and edit pages, upload documents and files, start discussions, and enter comments. To start, the group is only being used to control access to this archive site and not as an e-mail list. Anyone with a Google account may join this group. If you don't have a Google account, you can create one. They are free. If you just want to view items in the archive, you do not need to join. If you would like to contribute, click here to visit and join the group. Questions: Send questions and comments to mts-comments@umich.edu. News and updates 11 December 2012  MTS running on a Raspberry Pi Richard Chycoski from SFU in the now somewhat distant past has MTS running under Hercules under Linux on a Raspberry Pi. The MTS Today item in the discussion section of the website has details and photographs. 9 November 2012 "The Paging Game": Learn or relearn that everything you read on the Internet isn't entirely true If you do an Internet search for "Paging Game Thing King Zarking" you'll get over 200 hits. Many of them will tell you that the humorous "Paging Game" article was written by Jeff Berryman while he was working on MIT's Project MAC. But Jeff worked at the University of British Columbia when he wrote the article. Neither he nor his article were associated with Project MAC or MIT. Read the details in the Discussion and the Myths and misconception sections. "The Paging Game" article itself is reprinted and available online starting on page 2 of the 19 June 1974 issue of the U-M Computing Center Newsletter (Vol.4/No.7) in the Hathi Trust Digital Library. An HTML version of the 1974 article is also available from the MTS Archive and from Wikisource. 17 April 2012 WSU Computer Comics featured in the April 2012 issue of Wayne State magazine Under the heading "funny guy" on page 21 of the April 2012 issue of Wayne State magazine you'll find a description of the WSU Computer Comics and its author, Jim Simmons. All 12 issues of the comics as well as a short introduction and a key to the names used are available in the documents section of this web site.
MTS D6.0A - A pre-built version of MTS for use with the Hercules S/370 emulator A new version of MTS, D6.0A, is now available for download. It is based on the D6.0 version of MTS from 1988 with various fixes and updates to make operation under Hercules in 2012 smoother. D6.0A is delivered as a simulated 3380 disk drive which eliminates the need to restore MTS to disk from simulated magnetic tapes. There is a README-D6.0A.txt file with a description of the materials included, step-by-step instructions for running MTS under Hercules, a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and answers, and a template Hercules configuration file (hercules.cnf). The README-D6.0A.txt file and the d6.0A.zip archive are available from the MTS Archive. 8 January 2012 
On 24 December 2011, just 38 hours after the MTS distribution materials became available from Bitsavers.org, MTS D6.0 had been restored from simulated tape and was running under the open source Hercules System/370 Emulator. See the "MTS Today" discussion for details.  
MTS source and object is also available from U-M's Deep Blue Digital Archive The MTS distributions starting with D1.0 (1968) and ending with D6.0 (1988) are now available from the U-M Deep Blue Digital Archive. The material is the same as that available from Bitsavers.org, but packaged somewhat differently. Both archives include collections of simulated magnetic tapes in AWS format together with associated documentation. An overview of the material is also available. 22 December 2011 MTS source and object is available at Bitsavers.org The MTS distributions starting with D1.0 (1968) and ending with D6.0 (1988) are now available in the Software Archive at Bitsavers.org. The material is available as a collection of simulated magnetic tapes in AWS format together with associated documentation. An overview of the material is also available. Working with the D6.0 distribution materials it would be possible to create an IPLable version of MTS, but in the future we hope to make this easier by adding an IPLable version of MTS suitable for use with a S/370 emulator such as Hercules. The IPLable version of MTS will be based upon the version of MTS that was in use at the University of Michigan in 1996 shortly before MTS was shutdown.  To see older news and update items, go to the News and Updates archive. |
