Hi, > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:46:04 -0600 > "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is an interesting new journal article published today about > > the attempt to recover and reconstruct the first Fortran compiler. > > Simh, and some of the members of the SIMH list, get mention in the > > article. > > As a young FE right out of college, I went to IBM Poughkeepsie in 1992 > for IBM 7090 training and subsequently joined the Data Systems > Division Lab at Poughkeepsie in 1963. At the time, I was developing > advanced diagnostics for the "new" IBM 7040 and the "older" IBM 7090. > > Early on, I took an internal FORTRAN compiler design course - and was > given a copy of the original internal FORTRAN design document - which > contained detailed (mostly hand drawn) flowcharts and (IIRC) listings. > It was 8.5" x 11" and very thick. One of its authors was John Backus. > > I recognized that it was "special" and never discarded it. About five > years ago when looking through my collection for some IBM 7090 > Training Manuals (and found them), I also searched for the FORTRAN > design document - but it was not where I expected it to be. I > subsequently searched what was, to the best of my knowledge, all my > archives from that period - but unfortunately did not find it. > > It's quite possible that it got misplaced and is in one of the many > boxes of vintage archives I've collected over the years. If I ever > "stumble" across it, I'll let you all know - and lend it to Al Kossow > at the CHM so he can scan it and make it available to the world on > bitsavers.
What I would love to find is a copy (either listing or tape) of FMS for the 709. Rich -- ========================================================================== Richard Cornwell [email protected] http://sky-visions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cornwell-991076107 ========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
