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RPiBM

Revitalizing Legacy: Implementing IBM 1620 SMS Cards and Backplane Connectors in Raspberry Pi-Based Systems

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This project marries the nostalgic charm of IBM's vintage SMS Card System with Mordern Small Compute Forms, crafting, making and messing about to hopefully end up with something that is
an interesting and Functional Digital Interface for today’s selfproclaimed tech-savvy tinkerers like myself, who ponders "can every byte tell a story !".

IBM 1620

RTC at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Standard Modular System (SMS)

 is a system of standard transistorized circuit boards and mounting racks developed by IBM in the late 1950s

By ArnoldReinhold - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47097339

  • 1 × raspberry pi mainCompute
  • 1 × arduino leonardo secondaryCompte
  • 1 × hard disk drive deepStorage
  • 1 × battery psu/ups power 2 to the pi

  • SMS Card mods

    hybertec • 3 days ago • 0 comments

    vero board implanted into centered out sms card... jointed via epoxysms card with vero type board implant

    Hmmm.. vero board sms card, arduino leonardo on sms card, raspberry pi on sms card, hdd on sms card and a psu/ups on sms card Tart !

    new ideas !

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Ken Yap wrote 2 days ago • point

Please add a link to the Wiki page on Standard Modular System. I was sure that SMS didn't stand for Short Messaging System, but you can spare other readers looking for the expansion of the acronym SMS.

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hybertec wrote a day ago • point

good point... thanks

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