Re: Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Oct 18, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:41:51PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
>> where as back then you made notes and paper printouts of your code
>> that got archived in a back room.
> 
> Until the University decided to throw it all out to use the space
> for their new Department of Basket Weaving.

Reported that sort of thing is just what happened with the hand-written 
complete source code of the world's first ALGOL compiler -- the notebook was 
tossed during an office move or the like because no one present realized what 
it was.

        paul