Re: I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-15 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 02:29:39PM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 01:57 PM 10/15/2019, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > >I would say, after very quick looking, it is rather for SunOS, not for > >anything DEC-made. I wonder if others may come to different conclusions? > > Have you tried g

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-15 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 15, 2019, at 8:26 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > FYI there is a Burroughs 5500 simulator out there that runs ALGOL just > fine. Let me know if you want a pointer to the developer. B5500 simulation is part of the current SIMH. Apart from that, you can of course run AL

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-15 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 10/4/2019 6:43 AM, David via cctalk wrote: > 1976, UCSD. So I was using your Lisp. > > I got a position on the UCSD Pascal project half way through that year > (reunion in just 2 weeks). So I’m very familiar with the p-code and how all > that works as well. > > In 1978 I discovered Unix on a

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-15 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 10/3/2019 1:04 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: > > >> On Oct 3, 2019, at 10:26 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Oct 3, 2019, at 12:39 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/3/19 9:01 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >>> The PDP-6 and KA10 (bas

Re: DIBOL manual

2019-10-15 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 10/13/2019 12:35 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > I recently picked up a copy of "CTS-300 - DIBOL Language Reference Manual" > (because when I went to do a CHWiki page for the language: > > http://gunkies.org/wiki/DIBOL > > I could find almost nothing about it online); does anyone have e

Re: I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-15 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 01:57 PM 10/15/2019, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: >I would say, after very quick looking, it is rather for SunOS, not for >anything DEC-made. I wonder if others may come to different conclusions? Have you tried googling for Bob Nane of U-Maryland? He wrote a few papers. Last tracks I saw fo

Re: I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-15 Thread Ed C. via cctalk
Sun On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:57 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk > wrote: > > While dumping lispm tapes, I found one with a label saying "Read it > > into DRAL" (may be "DRAC"?) "and sent a message t

Re: I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-15 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > While dumping lispm tapes, I found one with a label saying "Read it > into DRAL" (may be "DRAC"?) "and sent a message to cap's bboard > saying where it can be found. -Bob”. There was another paper label > that had fallen

Free mid-vintage Macs and a WP in St Cloud Minnesota for pickup

2019-10-15 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
This came in, please contact me through https://www.vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm and I will forward your info to the person who requested a rescue so you can work it out, first come first served. Bill Original Message > From: > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 12:58 PM >

Re: DIBOL manual

2019-10-15 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/15/19 8:07 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > I seem to recall that COBOL was the first language with support for > structures? If DIBOL has support for them too, which would be > another similarity between the two. Both FLOW-MATIC (1953) and COMTRAN (1957) had support for data structure

Fwd: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-15 Thread Henk Stegeman via cctalk
Hi Al, On the surface 3V & 1.2V is printed. This is a MST-4 card extender. MST-1 & MST-2 are different. I was also interested, but the seller was not willing to ship them to Europe :-( Regards Henk

Re: DIBOL manual

2019-10-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chuck Guzis > One could argue that it's just as similar to FORTRAN (cf. computed GOTO > and logical IF statements). It probably worth pointing out that I never used COBOL, and have little knowledge of it. So when one reads "it is vaguely reminiscent of COBOL, as it has a 'Data

I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-15 Thread Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
While dumping lispm tapes, I found one with a label saying "Read it into DRAL" (may be "DRAC"?) "and sent a message to cap's bboard saying where it can be found. -Bob”. There was another paper label that had fallen off. What I think is the label in question was later found in the bottom of the b

Re: Restoring dull BOT markers?

2019-10-15 Thread Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
Went to the hardware store looking for the 3M tape, found some aluminum foil tape for HVAC duct work. It’s a hair thick, but works just fine. Worked on 5 out of 5 tapes it was tried on so far.