30 Sep
2009
30 Sep
'09
2:45 p.m.
Hi,
even surviving binary downloads would be interesting.
Leonard Kleinrock still has his IMP sitting in his office at UCLA. I
tried to talk him into making a dump to paper tape, but he seemed a bit
reluctant - perhaps anybody in the US could go there, fire up the
machine and get the dump. I'm quite confident that the 516 just works.
That's at least my experience with several H316 machines.
I have been told that BBN handled the downloads over
the net, and that
local nodes didn't maintain copies of the software.
Very modern!
BTW, Leonard Kleinrock does not have the software.
I also tried to get the H316 implementation of FORTH (must be one of the
very first) from the author of FORTH - but he has no copy left :-(
Best wishes,
Philipp