"A Purdue professor had a 20-drawer card file of 1620 software. The fire marshall insisted he had to get rid of it. I understand he gave it to CHM. Is it still there?"
Yes. Catalog entry here: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102710141 Many years (decades?) ago Dave Babcock and I read all the cards as part of the original 1620 project at CHM. Thank God for Bitsavers.org because the images of the software are available here: http://bitsavers.org/bits/IBM/1620/ Enjoy! Lee C. The obvious question is why is this material not on-line On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:46 PM Van Snyder via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 19:45 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > > > > There's actually a surprising amount of preserved material.... Both > > in source form, and both run in emulation. > > I re-created the Bendix G-15 Intercom 2000 from a manual. Not running, > of course, on a real G-15. Is there a G-15 emulator? CHM has a G-15, > but I understand it's not in operating order. > > | The same goes for Multics > > I think the 80286 was a better platform than the original for Multics. > And, of course, the Pentium is even better. Is Multics available for > Intel systems? > > > For most of this the source code still exists, though I'm not sure > > about the 1620 bits. > > A Purdue professor had a 20-drawer card file of 1620 software. The fire > marshall insisted he had to get rid of it. I understand he gave it to > CHM. Is it still there? > > > -- Lee Courtney +1-650-704-3934 cell
