Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-15 Thread Tony Duell
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > What about software? I've just realised I do have something that might be relevant here. There was a British research satellite called UK6. Various universities made experiments to fly on it. And there was a test unit

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-14 Thread Leif Johansson
On 2017-01-13 07:49, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Leif Johansson wrote: >> Noel Chiappa wrote: >>> Leif Johansson wrote: Me and peter recently discovered he saved the rest of the box. > > Is that Plåth? m - but usually without the 'h' :-) > >>> Is that the one I saw in the 'MIT-MC in Sweden'

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-14 Thread Leif Johansson
On 2017-01-13 13:40, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Lars Brinkhoff > > > Is there a list? What's on it? > > I think he meant the mailing list. > yup > > I guess the PDP-11 operating system TRANTOR ... I recently found a copy > > and sent it to the original authors. > > Oh,

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-13 Thread Paul Koning
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 6:45 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> ...Paul Koning >> A listing of RSTS-11 V0 > > If that's not already online in machine-readable form, we should get it > scanned and OCR'd. It's been scanned; the person who did the scanning has not yet posted it.

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Adrian Stoness
i have something called coss-4 never been able to find anything on it https://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/6109885397/in/photolist-doJhoE-aiUL4F-5ruwb7 On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > What about software? > > I guess the PDP-11 operating system TRANTOR

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
> What about software? I guess the PDP-11 operating system TRANTOR would be my most unusual piece. "Trantor was created by Steve Orszag of the MIT Applied Math department to access the CDC and Cray computers at NCAR for his fluid dynamics research. NCAR expected people to access the

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
Leif Johansson wrote: > Noel Chiappa wrote: >> Leif Johansson wrote: >>> Me and peter recently discovered he saved the rest of the box. Is that Plåth? >> Is that the one I saw in the 'MIT-MC in Sweden' pictures a while back? > Wasn't on the list then but maybe, yes. Is there a list? What's on

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Leif Johansson
Skickat från min iPhone 13 jan. 2017 kl. 00:45 skrev Noel Chiappa : >> From: Leif Johansson > >> Me and peter recently discovered he saved the rest of the box. > > Is that the one I saw in the 'MIT-MC in Sweden' pictures a while back? Wasn't on the list then but

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Leif Johansson > Me and peter recently discovered he saved the rest of the box. Is that the one I saw in the 'MIT-MC in Sweden' pictures a while back? > Paul Koning > A listing of RSTS-11 V0 If that's not already online in machine-readable form, we should get it

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread jim stephens
On 1/12/2017 10:35 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 1/12/17 10:24 AM, jim stephens wrote: the CHM took ownership of the USL archive which would have included any BCPL remains. This came in before my time. I know about the paper archive and index, were there tapes with it too? The Danes brought

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/11/17 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > What about software? > tough one.. I've worked on recovering a lot of rare stuff. Probably the copy of the University of Hawaii BCC-500 backup tapes, since there was only ever one BCC-500 At CHM, probably the Whirlwind paper and magnetic tapes, or

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread jim stephens
On 1/12/2017 7:27 AM, Charles Anthony wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:24 PM, jim stephens wrote: On 1/11/2017 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: What about software? BCPL IBM mainframe portability package (original time frame). Common now, not so common back in the

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Charles Anthony
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:24 PM, jim stephens wrote: > > > On 1/11/2017 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > >> What about software? >> > BCPL IBM mainframe portability package (original time frame). Common now, > not so common back in the day. > > The kit was used with some

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Paul Koning
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 2:02 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > What about software? A listing of RSTS-11 V0 (when it was still called BTSS). And a listing for a program to calculate e and pi, on a Philips PR8000 -- a machine for which information appears to be entirely absent

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-11 Thread jim stephens
On 1/11/2017 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: What about software? BCPL IBM mainframe portability package (original time frame). Common now, not so common back in the day. The kit was used with some efforts to port to minicomputers @ USL Also got some Mathilda manuals from Aarhus

What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-11 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
What about software?