Maybe of use with current usage and foundational concepts:
https://interskill.com/course/z-vm-introduction-and-concepts-z-vm-7-4/
Don't know if Lynn Wheeler is on this list, but he is active on Facebook
and Linkedin and knows a lot about early VM.
HTH!
Lee Courtney
On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hey all,
I was trying to track down some kind of image/photo of "what IBM VM/370
looks like" (the operating system)
I tried looking also in the IBM manuals - I'm just not finding much. Some
kind of image of what maybe a remote login looked like, a task process
list, or maybe basic file/folder management commands, or how an editor or
programming worked on that system.
There is a bit of media with a VM/370 emulator, but I wasn't sure how
accurately representative it was of a kind of "look and feel" of that OS.
What I'd need is maybe photographs of teletype printouts? This was still
early 1970s. Which is understandable not much of that was probably kept
around.
Thanks, just digging around - like wasn't sure if VM/370 was still
six-character filename limited like earlier 60s era OS's, or whatever
characteristics it had in operating it.
-Steve
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