ICL1501 Cobol manual available

[Neil Thompson]

I never used COBOL on the 150x machines, all of our stuff was done in EBB
(Extended Business Basic), which was a rather bletcherous language IIRC.  I
must admit, I'm rather surprised to learn that something as big a COBOL
would fit on the machine.

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 19:46, jos via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Since you are all talking COBOL now :
>
> ftp://ftp.dreesen.ch/ICL1501
>
> There is the manual for the early 70´s COBOL implementation for the
> ICL1501, a small 8K or 16K TTL based personal computer ( TTL based CPU,
> with 2x 74181 ALU and a 32x8 CRT display)
>
> Not the best of scans, but that alas reflects the material I have.
>
> Some other  doku on the ICL1501 is also included :  an operator guide and
> tape utilities user guide.
>
> I do have the tape with the COBOL itself, alas no way yet of gettig it on
> modern hardware.
>
>
> And if anyone has dokumentation on the ICl1503 or 1501/43, in particular
> the Diablo drive interface then I sure would like to see it !
>
> Have the kontroller, but no documentation...
>
>
> Al, as always, feel free to add any and all to bitsavers.
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> Jos
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