On 8 Oct 2014 at 9:49, Dave Dyer wrote:
At 09:37 AM 10/8/2014, Mike Speciner wrote:
The lineprinter listings are still perfectly fine.
Yes, but hard to search, harder to execute. And a fire hazard.
Actually, there has just been good luck scanning and OCR'ing old listings. I had a copy of the old ARPAnet IMP code. And one team managed to OCR it [so it is now searchable!] and another team figured out the assembler for it [I wrote some kind of an awful kludge based on our PDP-1 assembler, but I'll be damned if they didn't manage to get the thing to assemble correctly!!] and another team implements a DDP516 emulator. And there's actually a 5-node ARPAnet *running* on a friend's computer. So listings can be useful and resurrected. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--