Re: [Bug-apl] re early apl on a pc

[enztec]

I spent many a night on York APL - that was what we connected to at SUNY from a 
real TTY (TeleType terminal with paper tape rolls as 'hard copy' - using 
backspace to make the ⍕⍋ double strike chars) but sometime later they switched 
us to APLUM (u maryland ? or mass?) with the ibm 2471 (with the famous apl ibm 
type ball - i still have it - they made us buy them for our own use) when they 
upgraded to modems       and     i have saxapl 621  right here .. i've heard 
rumours of 621b's existance!




On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:53:50 -0500
Peter Teeson <address@hidden> wrote:

> If my memory is correct it was Gord Rahmer who implemented the interpreter on 
> the MCM.
> When I was doing my undergraduate courses at York University in Toronto. He 
> taught one of them and introduced me to APL.
> York ran an APL interpreter on their mainframe. He also introduced me to I.P. 
> Sharp Associates whom I later joined.
> <http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/
>  
> <http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/>>
> 
> > On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > these days there exist many emulators for various old machines. Maybe 
> > someone has a
> > copy of that old APL somewhere? I suppose the current emulators are much 
> > faster than their
> > old originals.
> > 
> > /// Jürgen
> > 
> > 
> > On 02/25/2017 03:55 PM, address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
> >> from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) 
> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)>
> >> 
> >> The first microcomputer implementation of APL was on the Intel 8008-based 
> >> MCM/70, the first general purpose personal computer, in 1973. Size of 
> >> arrays along any dimension could not be larger than 255 and the machine 
> >> was quite slow, but very convenient for education purposes.
> >> 
> >> does any one have any experience with this ...
> >> 
> >> i had always thought that the ibm 5100 was the first 'personal computer' 
> >> that ran apl