[Simh] Simh and historical Fortran in the news

[Richard Cornwell]

Hi,

   Right now I am in the process of generating a master tape to try and
   run it. I should have it ready in a couple of weeks. 

   Been trying to get Chain jobs to run under Fortran II under IBSYS,
   however having hard to. If anyone can help, please contact me. 

Rich 

> There is an interesting new journal article published today about the
> attempt to recover and reconstruct the first Fortran compiler.  Simh,
> and some of the members of the SIMH list, get mention in the article.
> 
> @String{j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT  = "IEEE Annals of the History of
>                                   Computing"}
> 
> @Article{McJones:2017:SOF,
>   author =       "Paul McJones",
>   title =        "In Search of the Original {Fortran} Compiler",
>   journal =      j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT,
>   volume =       "39",
>   number =       "2",
>   pages =        "81--88",
>   month =        "????",
>   year =         "2017",
>   CODEN =        "ICGADZ",
>   DOI =          "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2017.20",
>   ISSN =         "0272-1716 (print), 1558-1756 (electronic)",
>   ISSN-L =       "0272-1716",
>   bibdate =      "Thu Jul 13 14:47:50 MDT 2017",
>   bibsource =    "http://computer.org/cga/;
>                  http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/fortran3.bib;
>                  http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/ieeecga.bib",
>   URL =
> "http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/",
> acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, fjournal =     "IEEE Annals of the
> History of Computing", journal-URL =
> "http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/magazines/cga", }
> 
> The team's effort was not successful, but they did recover, and make
> work, the Fortran II compiler from about 1959.
> 
> There were a number of IBM 704 customers who got a printed book
> containing a listing of the original compiler, but no copies of that
> book, known as ``The Tome'', have yet been found.
> 
> The article reports that it was IBM's practice to destroy code for
> machines that were no longer manufactured.
> 
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