Category Archives: Simulators

50th Anniversary of LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual

Posted on 8/29/2012 by Paul McJones

I just noticed that August 17 was the 50th anniversary of the LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual by John McCarthy, Paul W. Abrahams, Daniel J. Edwards, Timothy P. Hart, and Michael I. Levin. On that day in 1962 it was published … Continue reading →

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Whetstone ALGOL

Posted on 5/16/2010 by Paul McJones

Part of my motivation for starting on an ALGOL project was that Brian Randell recently obtained permission from the copyright holder to post an online copy of ALGOL 60 Implementation at CHM. This book, which he and Lawford Russell published … Continue reading →

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IBSYS Fortran II runs on a SIMH-based simulator

Posted on 4/3/2006 by Paul McJones

An upcoming release of Bob Supnik’s SIMH (Computer History Simulation system) will include IBM 704/709/7090/7094 simulation provided by Rich Cornwell. Rich has been very busy lately: implementing and debugging the simulations of the CPU, channels, controllers, and devices; tracking down … Continue reading →

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Brad Parker resurrects MIT CADR Lisp Machine source code

Posted on 10/4/2005 by Paul McJones

Brad Parker recently announced: After a long and interesting search I uncovered a set of 9-track tapes which appear to be a snapshot of the MIT CADR Lisp machine source code from around 1980. This is not the final source … Continue reading →

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Pascal Bourguignon recreates machine-readable source for LISP 1.5

Posted on 6/8/2005 by Paul McJones

Pascal Bourguignon encountered this item on my History of LISP web site: LISP system assembly listing. “FIELD TEST ASSEMBLY OF LISP 1.5 SEPTEMBER 1961″, labeled “Bonnie’s Birthday Assembly”. M.I.T. Museum, donated by Timothy P. Hart and scanned by Jack Harper. … Continue reading →

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Dave Pitts is making progress running Fortran II

Posted on 3/8/2005 by Paul McJones

I have been negligent in reporting impressive progress made by Dave Pitts emulating IBM 7090 software. As Leif Harcke posted to alt.folklore.computers and bit.listserv.ibm-main on 2 February 2005: Dave has developed his “asm7090″ cross-assembler to the point where it can … Continue reading →

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Historic software at bitsavers.org

Posted on 11/28/2004 by Paul McJones

Although the majority of items at Al Kossow’s bitsavers.org are scanned copies of manuals, he also has software in source and/or executable form for a variety of machines (scroll down to “The Software Archive”) . Some of the oldest include … Continue reading →

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IBM 7094 Emulator now runs Fortran IV compiler

Posted on 9/14/2004 by Paul McJones

I expect most Dusty Decks readers are aware of alt.folklore.computers, but it’s worth noting Rob Storey’s recent post IBM 7094 Emulator now runs Fortran compiler. As I posted in June, Rob has written a IBM 7094 emulator. Through the work … Continue reading →

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Peter Zilahy Ingerman

Posted on 6/17/2004 by Paul McJones

I learned that Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD, was the donor of the Fortran II listing at The Smithsonian. Peter published a number of books and papers in the area of programming languages and compilers. I called Peter and had a … Continue reading →

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Rob Storey

Posted on 6/11/2004 by Paul McJones

Earlier I had learned that Paul Pierce’s web site contains images of a number of system tapes for old IBM mainframes. Paul provides some utilities he wrote for making sense of these old tapes, which were written on 7-track drives, … Continue reading →

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