Any Harris H-series software?

[cbowen]

I have two Harris 500 control panels. The Harris H-Series was a series of 24-bit machines they called super mini-computers in the late 70's and early 80's. I think it would be fun to add this architecture to SimH and using blinkenbone to make one of the panels work. But, I can't seem to find any software for this system. The company is long gone, so I would hope someone would put something onto bitsavers if they had it sitting around somewhere. Let me know if you have something sitting around. I would love to learn more about this more obscure system.

 

[Al Kossow]

the most common front panel was from the slash6
before harris bought them, they were called datacraft

Index of /pdf/datacraft

i have some vulcan tapes that I read a while ago from the free university in berlin
but they were in poor condition and have a bunch of bad blocks. that is the only
software that i've ever found for them

tape images (such as they are) http://bitsavers.org/bits/Harris/vulcan

 

[HoJoPo]

I was a maintainer/operator for the AN/USM-470(v1) Avionics Test Set in the US Navy from 1995-1998. ATS used a Harris H100 computer, we had VULCAN for running the test bench and DEMON for diagnosing / testing the H100 itself. DEMON was more of a stripped down real time OS/monitor. Storage was over an IEEE-488 connected HP 8 inch removable cartridge 10 megabyte drive, we used an HP terminal/microcomputer for the console.

I might still have a console key around for it somewhere....

 

[cbowen]

I'll see if there's anything I can pull from those files. Thanks!

 

[Al Kossow]

thank you for digging into it. I'm never going to have time to get back to them.
Bill Shannon did a Unix port to it at Case Western Univ, something that appears to have been lost

 

[grimm]

Hah, I don't have any software, but I did learn to program C on a Harris 800 in collage (must have been around 1987?).

 

[kboldt]

I was surfing for info on Harris minicomputers and ended up here.

at the University of Kansas in the early '80s, the School of Engineering acquired a H500. Subsequently we got a H800 and H1000.
I ended up as the operator for about 1.5 years as I moved into grad school. I used to run the "demon" tape to diagnose the system prior to the techs coming to fix the computer.

I did my masters work on those computers running finite element analysis of earthquakes and buildings.
I also wrote some communication software for connecting process simulation software running on the Harris to experiments running in the Chemical Engineering process control laboratory.
great memories.

did anyone find more info on the computers, manuals, etc.? I would love to recreate some of that old world...