What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

jim stephens jwsmail at jwsss.com
Thu Jan 12 01:24:20 CST 2017



On 1/11/2017 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> What about software?
BCPL IBM mainframe portability package (original time frame). Common 
now, not so common back in the day.

The kit was used with some efforts to port to minicomputers @ USL

Also got some Mathilda manuals from Aarhus

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/aarhusUniversity/pb/PB-34_An_Overview_of_the_MATHILDA_System_Aug74.pdf

We were running the simulator which was in BCPL on a Multics system.  The visit by the Mathilda hardware was canceled a year after I was there.

thanks
jim
  



More information about the cctalk mailing list