Unix v2 in PDP-7 assembly language
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Fri Oct 18 20:08:51 CDT 2019
> On Oct 18, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:41:51PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
>> where as back then you made notes and paper printouts of your code
>> that got archived in a back room.
>
> Until the University decided to throw it all out to use the space
> for their new Department of Basket Weaving.
Reported that sort of thing is just what happened with the hand-written complete source code of the world's first ALGOL compiler -- the notebook was tossed during an office move or the like because no one present realized what it was.
paul
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