Re: Historical recreation/restoration of original FORTH on the IBM 1130

2018-03-22 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Dave, Yes, still have it, I upgraded mine from the rubber keys to the larger plastic keybord. I also have the modem interface and a centronics interface with a Timex printer. Somewhere I have a lot of original software: Small business accounts Manic Miner Tasword 2 (written in Leeds!) Avalon

Re: Historical recreation/restoration of original FORTH on the IBM 1130

2018-03-21 Thread David Crayford
On 22/03/2018 2:52 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Wow, I still have a copy of Forth for my Sinclair Spectrum. My version was very frustrating to use, one error and you had to go back many many steps. It's the antithesis of modern programming paradigms. Do you still have the specky? I knocked all

Re: Historical recreation/restoration of original FORTH on the IBM 1130

2018-03-21 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Wow, I still have a copy of Forth for my Sinclair Spectrum. My version was very frustrating to use, one error and you had to go back many many steps. It's the antithesis of modern programming paradigms. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >

Historical recreation/restoration of original FORTH on the IBM 1130

2018-03-20 Thread Jack J. Woehr
http://rescue1130.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/historical-recreationrestoration-of.html -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human