The Starter System: MVS 3.7

The three pack "Starter System" is actually a compact generation of MVS 3.7.  In spite of the compact size, there are quite a variety of devices generated for this system, although it is only necessary to utilize a few devices to build the MVS 3.8j target system.  The reason for this is that this system had to be generic enough to IPL on a number of diverse hardware configurations.

Here is a complete list of the devices and the associated addresses where they can be "attached":

Device	Addresses (cuu)
2540 card reader	00c, 20c
2540 card punch	00d, 20d
3505 card reader	012, 20a
3535 card punch	013, 20b
1403 line printer	00e, 00f, 20e
3211 line printer	002, 004
3800 page (laser) printing subsystem	018, 118, 218
3215 console (telnet connection)	009, 01f, 209, 21f
3213 console hardcopy printer	015, 017
2400 magnetic tape	182, 183, 184
3400 magnetic tape	170, 171, 270, 271
2305 disk	1d0, 1f0
2314 disk	130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135
	136, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234
	235, 236
3330 disk	150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155
	158, 159, 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d
	250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255
	258, 259, 25a, 25b, 25c, 25d
3340 disk	1c0, 1c1, 1c2, 1c3, 1c4, 1c5
	1c6, 1c7
3350 disk	148, 149, 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d
	248, 249, 24a, 24b, 24c, 24d
3158 ? unknown to me ?	014, 016
3066 CPU-to-CPU communication channel	019, 040, 060, 0c0, 0d0, 0e0
	0f0, 140, 240

I do not recognize the device number 3158 and, to the best of my knowledge, have never worked on a system equipped with this type device.  If anyone recognizes this device number and would like to supply the missing description, I would love to hear from you.

I hope that you have found my instructions useful.  If you have questions that I can answer to help expand upon my explanations and examples shown here, please don't hesitate to send them to me:

This page was last updated on January 19, 2008 .