I spent many a night on York APL - that was what we connected to at SUNY from a real TTY (TeleType terminal with paper tape rolls as 'hard copy' - using backspace to make the ⍕⍋ double strike chars) but sometime later they switched us to APLUM (u maryland ? or mass?) with the ibm 2471 (with the famous apl ibm type ball - i still have it - they made us buy them for our own use) when they upgraded to modems and i have saxapl 621 right here .. i've heard rumours of 621b's existance!
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:53:50 -0500 Peter Teeson <peter.tee...@icloud.com> wrote: > If my memory is correct it was Gord Rahmer who implemented the interpreter on > the MCM. > When I was doing my undergraduate courses at York University in Toronto. He > taught one of them and introduced me to APL. > York ran an APL interpreter on their mainframe. He also introduced me to I.P. > Sharp Associates whom I later joined. > <http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/ > > <http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/>> > > > On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Juergen Sauermann > > <juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > these days there exist many emulators for various old machines. Maybe > > someone has a > > copy of that old APL somewhere? I suppose the current emulators are much > > faster than their > > old originals. > > > > /// Jürgen > > > > > > On 02/25/2017 03:55 PM, enz...@gmx.com <mailto:enz...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) > >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)> > >> > >> The first microcomputer implementation of APL was on the Intel 8008-based > >> MCM/70, the first general purpose personal computer, in 1973. Size of > >> arrays along any dimension could not be larger than 255 and the machine > >> was quite slow, but very convenient for education purposes. > >> > >> does any one have any experience with this ... > >> > >> i had always thought that the ibm 5100 was the first 'personal computer' > >> that ran apl
