Hi, Joey. I'm posting this question in public because what I'm asking about may be of somewhat wider interest.
I read about your essay in Vector entitled "What's Wrong with my Programming?" ( http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v223/jkt223.htm ) In describing your first encounter with APL you mentioned being at IBM's Boulder, Colorado site. I moved to Boulder in 1972, and encountered APL about 1974. The Boulder Valley School District had an IBM\370 145 under the MUSIC operating system. In addition to using it for the internal needs of the District, they made the machine available to students. Some 300-baud modems and one carefully guarded APL Selectric typeball allowed a few of us at Boulder High School to explore the startling world of APL. That exposure gave me the combination of confidence and curiosity that came into play when, decades later, I chose to learn J. My question, here, is this: Do you know anything about the history of that particular machine or the people who helped make sure it was available to students? I suspect there's no clear connection to you or anybody you knew at that IBM location, but the computing world was even smaller then than it is now, so I thought I'd ask. Tracy Harms P.S. One of the APL books from the IBM library you mentioned ended up in my own collection. I don't recall how I came upon it, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
