On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 14:52 +0000, Sid Jones via
cctalk wrote:
IIRC, I have a copy of the Elliot 803 A-103 Algol
compiler on a five-
hole
tape in a drawer somewhere in my untidy office...
As used in UCNW Bangor, 1971-1974.
There might be a reader somewhere. If anybody has (or developes) an
803B emulator, it would be nice to have the compiler.
Paul Pierce read several IBM 1401 tapes. The Computer History Museum in
Mountain View, CA has two operating 1401s, and the SimH project has an
emulator. It's nice to have the Autocoder assembler, FORTRAN II and
FORTRAN IV compilers, COBOL compiler, … to use. There are students at
San Jose State University who go to classes in 1401 programming at CHM.
Maybe Paul has a paper tape reader too.
Peter Onion has a rather fine 803 emulator, and the Algol tapes. And a
working 803. I've only got bits of one in my shed.