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Hardware boffin is building a simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe – With microcode intact so it can work with an original operators console Hardware guru Ken Shirriff is working on a simulator for the IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe, launched in April 1964. His program runs the original machines microcode so it can control and be controlled by an original front …