Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/1/19 5:22 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods. > > I remember Mylar punched tape. That stuff is amazingly strong and > waterproof. I've seen it for paper tapes that were intended to be read > thousands of times

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 1, 2019, at 8:15 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk > wrote: > > On 2019-10-01 6:28 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote: >> Strange Paper tape lasts forver,Digial media is lost after the latest >> server crash > > Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods. I remember

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2019-10-01 6:28 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote: > Strange Paper tape lasts forver,Digial media is lost after the latest > server crash Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods. --T

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread ben via cctalk
On 10/1/2019 1:38 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, ben wrote: A quick look,  nothing is said about Algol, did you mean Assembler? what I see is interesting is that LISP is on a 11. I allways thought LISP only ran on BIGGER machines. I have the source and binary for

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > Any idea what ultimately happened to that 11/45? MIT offered it to me as a gift, but I was a total idiot (and also didn't have future vision), and as I was so busy with the IETF/IESG at the time (which might have been the right call, given how the Internet - note

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, ben wrote: A quick look, nothing is said about Algol, did you mean Assembler? what I see is interesting is that LISP is on a 11. I allways thought LISP only ran on BIGGER machines. I have the source and binary for KLISP-11 V2 on papertape; available on our FTP server.

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread ben via cctalk
On 9/30/2019 2:43 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: See Chapter 3, pg. 249 in the PDF. - Josh I only read THE TABLE OF CONTENTS... I was not expecting a bunch of files all in one big PDF. I view all my PDFs on my tablet, the screen size fits better than the WIDE SCREEN CinemaScope* format of

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 2:29 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > From: Josh Dersch > > > descriptions of the PDP-11/45 DELPHI system > > ... > > moves on to Algol and LISP > > I later became the 'owner' of that PDP-11/45 (our group at LCS traded an >

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 30, 2019, at 4:39 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: > > A quick look, nothing is said about Algol, did you mean Assembler? > what I see is interesting is that LISP is on a 11. I allways thought > LISP only ran on BIGGER machines. > Ben. From what I heard fairly recently, some early LISP

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > descriptions of the PDP-11/45 DELPHI system > ... > moves on to Algol and LISP I later became the 'owner' of that PDP-11/45 (our group at LCS traded an -11/40, which EECS wanted for their DECSystem-20, for it). That Algol and LISP were later moved to Unix

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:39 PM ben via cctalk wrote: > On 9/30/2019 12:50 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > > Thought someone here might find this interesting; I have a binder of > > materials describing the entire course (descriptions of the PDP-11/45 > > DELPHI system, readings, coursework,

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread ben via cctalk
On 9/30/2019 12:50 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: Thought someone here might find this interesting; I have a binder of materials describing the entire course (descriptions of the PDP-11/45 DELPHI system, readings, coursework, quizzes, exams (with answers)) for MIT 6.031 "Structure and

Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
Thought someone here might find this interesting; I have a binder of materials describing the entire course (descriptions of the PDP-11/45 DELPHI system, readings, coursework, quizzes, exams (with answers)) for MIT 6.031 "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Languages", 1974.