Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Sean Conner via cctalk
It was thus said that the Great ben via cctalk once stated: > On 1/13/2019 2:06 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > >Being an old hard-of-seeing guy myself, I much prefer mixed-case to > >all-caps. All caps destroys the "shape" of words. > > Where is the $%!@ codepage for the ASR-33. Get all

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread ben via cctalk
On 1/13/2019 2:06 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Being an old hard-of-seeing guy myself, I much prefer mixed-case to all-caps. All caps destroys the "shape" of words. Where is the $%!@ codepage for the ASR-33. Get all caps with a REAL keyboard and better text (with a new ribbon) than a

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 1/13/19 11:47 AM, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote: > Yup. He did it intentionally because, as he said, most of his friends > were hard of seeing, and by using ALL CAPS the letters were bigger and thus, > easier to read. But the new Chromebook removed the CAPSLOCK key. > > The fact that

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Sean Conner via cctalk
It was thus said that the Great John Ball via cctalk once stated: > >ELTRAN THE COMPILER > >ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? > >(NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) > > > >ED# > > Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;) My dad used to do that. At the time, I thought it was

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, Peter Cetinski via cctalk wrote: On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:32 PM, John Ball via cctalk wrote: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) ED# Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;) Maybe he’s using a

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Peter Cetinski via cctalk
> On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:32 PM, John Ball via cctalk > wrote: > >> ELTRAN THE COMPILER >> ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? >> (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) >> >> ED# > > Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;) Maybe he’s using a TRS-80 without the lowercase

RE: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread John Ball via cctalk
>ELTRAN THE COMPILER >ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? >(NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) > >ED# Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;)

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-06 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 12:10 PM 1/5/2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >Okay, I think I found the reference to it. > >It turns out that it was a high-school student's project entered in the >"Fourth Annual Computer Programming Contest for Grades 7 to 12'. To quote: > >"The 1966 winner was William J. Elliott, a 12th

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-05 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
Chuck! Many thanks! Update on  422 UNIVAC  docs . .  some kind   people have mailed in  docs and    things  they have  found related to this  422 UNIVAC ...  things are  shaping up! Many  thanks   to  all  these  folks- I  fear ever putting power to this  thing... so  may  parts to go  POP... I

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-05 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
(COME ON SOCRATES ...  DO YOUR  THING!) In a message dated 1/5/2019 1:49:38 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: no is compiler a small one only 2 do loops allowed...ed# Sent from AOL Mobile MailOn Friday, January 4, 2019 Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:On 1/4/19 8:42 PM,

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-05 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Since it was a 53-year old high-school project, I doubt that you're going to find much on it. However, see the post by Steve Schweda here: https://community.hpe.com/t5/Operating-System-OpenVMS/Left-shift-by-more-than-32-bits-gt-undefined-in-DEC-C/td-p/5054212 He may actually have some

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-05 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Okay, I think I found the reference to it. It turns out that it was a high-school student's project entered in the "Fourth Annual Computer Programming Contest for Grades 7 to 12'. To quote: "The 1966 winner was William J. Elliott, a 12th grade student at West High School in Minneapolis. His

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-05 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
no is compiler a small one only 2 do loops allowed...ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Friday, January 4, 2019 Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 1/4/19 8:42 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Would be  interesting when you find it. > Not necessarily "tiny" > Remember WATFOR?   (very impressive!)

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-04 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 1/4/19 8:42 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Would be  interesting when you find it. > Not necessarily "tiny" > Remember WATFOR?   (very impressive!) I guesss not too many numerical methods types hwere, but ELTRAN is a subroutine in the EISPACK linear programming set. Yes, it's all FORTRAN:

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-04 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Would be interesting when you find it. Not necessarily "tiny" Remember WATFOR? (very impressive!) I had a lot of fun with PDQ FORTRAN on 1620. . . . and, my reply was meant in jest. You are nothing like the fellow who told us about Valtrep. (other than the sparcity of Google hits) --

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-04 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
have no idea but do have a feeling it might have been like a 'tiny fortran' Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Friday, January 4, 2019 Fred Cisin wrote: On Sat, 5 Jan 2019, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > ELTRAN THE COMPILER > ANY DOCS? ANY ONE  USED IT? > (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) Was  it  one 

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-04 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sat, 5 Jan 2019, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? ANY ONE  USED IT? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) Was it one of the ones based on Valtrep? http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2017-March/033410.html -- Grumpy Ol' Fred