[cctalk] Re: WICAT Systems

Some models (e.g., the 150) supported Multibus. In the early 1980s at Tandem Austin we used one with a SUN graphics board in a Multibus slot to prototype a 68000 workstation we were building (but that never became a product). Al Kossow has lots of information about Wicat in bitsavers. Here’s a b

Free if you pick them up: Byte, Dr. Dobbs, People’s Computers, FORTH Dimensions, MacWorld, ...

If you can pick these up at my home in Mountain View, CA you are welcome to them. BYTE 1975-1976: #1, #2, #4, #5, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16 1977 V2 #1-#12 1978 V3 #1-#3 1979 V4 #8 LISP 1980 V5 #8 FORTH 1981 V6 #8 SMALLTALK 1982 V7 #8 LOGO 1983 V8 #8 C 1984 V9 #8 MODULA-2 1985 V10

Re: COMTRAN [was: IEEE publishes "In Search of the Original Fortran Compiler" ...]

> On Aug 28, 2017, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > Related to this, did Bob Bemer ever preserve a copy of IBM COMTRAN > source? For those unaware of it, this was one of the predecessors of > COBOL. > … It turns out that Paul Pierce’s IBSYS source tapes [1] include a version of the IBM COMTRAN (aka CT a

[cctalk] Re: More ALGOL-68

> On Jan 6, 2024,Mark Kahrs > wrote: > > I remember circa 1977 CMU had a PDP-11 compiler for '68 with an extensive > runtime component. > I presume the sources are lost. > > Peter Hibbard was the guy responsible if I recall. Yes, Peter was the author, and he also sp

Re: wanted back issues IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING bound or unbound... dtop us a line off list please.

Chuck, I’ve found the Living Computers Museum in Seattle is interested in building their collection of paper copies of journals, and will pay for shipping. The form to offer items for donation is here: https://livingcomputers.org/Discover/Contribute-Historical-Artifacts.aspx . The more careful

Re: wanted back issues IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING bound or unbound... dtop us a line off list please.

supplying ACM with scans of AFIPS and perhaps more.) > On Dec 30, 2018, at 5:04 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > > >> On Dec 30, 2018, at 2:37 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> Chuck, >> >> I’ve found the Living Computers Museu

Re: Anyone heard of the S1 Operating System

Googling for "multisolutions inc. s1 operating system" turned up several mentions from ComputerWorld, an S1 operating system pin at Etsy, plus this blog post: http://mathisliberalarts.blogspot.com/2012/03/?m=0 > One day at Burroughs I received a phone call from a recruiter. Usually I > don’t g

Re: Algol W [was: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC]

> On May 26, 2020, Al Kossow wrote: > > On 5/26/20 6:39 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> >> >>> Algol W was from Eroupe? >> >> Algol W was from Stanford, written by Wirth when he was there > > Actually, by Dick Sites > > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/cs_techReports/STAN-CS-71-230_Algol

Re: Algol W [was: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC]

On May 27, 2020, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Al Kossow wrote: >>> Algol W was from Eroupe? >> Algol W was from Stanford, written by Wirth when he was there > > I wonder if there's any connection to Stanford's SAIL language? Good question. I believe the answer is “Wirth was initially involved with

Re: IBM vacuum tubes

Not exactly on subject, but problems designing the IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch due to the use of existing vacuum tube designs is discussed in section 2.4 of: Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, and Emerson W. Pugh IBM’s Early Computers The MIT Press, 1986 The book says

Re: Original CAD code in the wild?

Randy, Although there are people interested in collecting historic software (especially source code), I don’t know of a central place to discuss it. I’ve collected the original IBM 704 Fortran/Fortran II compiler, the original IBM 709x Lisp II interpreter, and various other things (see http://

RE: Original CAD code in the wild?

Also, the computer history museum has a listing, so someone might be interested in getting the original code running on an emulator: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903 > On May 26, 2018, at 10:00 AM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: > > I don't know if any source is still av

Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

> On Apr 1, 2021, at 10:00 AM,Al Kossow > wrote: > > > Interpress had nothing to do with the Alto > > Talk to Paul McJones re. Interpress translation I included Press-to-{PostScript,PDF} conversion in the program that generated http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org,

Re: Early Programming Books

1955: An Introduction to Automatic Computers (Ned Chapin ) I have the second edition — copyright 1963. Chapter 8 is “Elements of Programming” with a fully-worked out assembly language example for a hypothetical machi

[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

This sounds like FLACC (Full Language Algol68 Checkout Compiler) by Chris Thomson and Colin Broughton: "You know, we only ever got 22 copies installed, and less than 5 of those in North America. Even though it ran on 370's under MVS, CMS and MTS, and was cheap and reliable. Talk about a marke

[cctalk] Re: FOCAL history

Note in his "FOCAL Notes and Background ”, Rick Merrill said: "Back in Maynard I took an editor, a floating point package and the specs for the JOHNNIAC Open Shop System (JOSS) and ideas from the Massachusetts General Hospita

[cctalk] Re: Elliott Algol

> On19 Feb 2025 18:39:08 -0500, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > >>> One of most ingenious coding tricks to me was the problem of saving and restoring all registers without resorting to an exchange jump. We used that one as a test for applicants. >>> >>> Argh... I know I've seen t

[cctalk] Re: Elliott Algol

> On 16 Feb 2025 18:00:35 -0700,ben > wrote: > > I have trouble understanding the fine points of accessing a local > variable in Algol with a display. Books tend to spend more time > on the evils of a dangling else, and gloss over the run time action of > a display

[cctalk] Re: Elliott Algol

> On 15 Feb 2025 18:41:21 -0800,Van Snyder > wrote: > > Harry Husky, the G15 designer, was one of the computer design pioneers. > He became a professor (maybe adjunct) at UC Berkeley. As far as I know, Huskey was a regular professor. Two of his Ph.D. students w

[cctalk] Re: Elliott Algol

> On Feb 17, 2025, at 5:25 PM, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 14:02 -0800, Paul McJones wrote: >>> On 15 Feb 2025 18:41:21 -0800,Van Snyder >> > wrote: >>> >>> Harry Husky, the G15 designer, was one of the computer design pioneers. >>> He became a pr