[SCC_Active_Members] Status report for SCC meeting, 2006 February 15 -- Paul McJones

[Paul McJones]

P1. Fortran, Paul McJones (chair).

CHM now has digital images of the 704 FORTRAN II compiler listing 
belonging to the Smithsonian. Thanks to Kirsten for approval to hire a 
contractor back east to do the scanning, and to Paula for handling the 
details. You can download the images in PDF format from the SCC's 
FORTRAN web site 
(http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/FORTRAN/). An 
enthusiast, Rich Cornwell, has written a 704/709/7090/7094 emulator 
based on Bob Supnik's SIMH and is planning to type in this FORTRAN II 
listing so he can run it.

P6. Lisp, Paul McJones (chair).

Dag Spicer sent Professor Stoyan a letter on January 26th inviting him 
to consider donating his Lisp archive to the Computer History Museum. 
Stoyan has not yet responded; Dag plans to check in with him next week.

Jim Meehan gave me his Lisp document collection, which includes several 
interesting items including a Lisp manual edited by Jim from Cognitive 
Systems, Inc. (founded by Roger C. Schank circa 1982 to commercialize 
natural language technologies), a version of the University of Calfornia 
at Irvine Lisp manual (also edited by Jim), another early version of the 
Lisp 1.5 Programamer's manual, and a manual for Information Processing 
Language-V published by Prentice-Hall in 1961.

C4. Working with ACM’s HOPL-III 2007 (Paul McJones).

Mike Mahoney will be discussing my proposal (that HOPL III authors work 
with SCC to collect/preserve their historic software) with the 
conference co-chairs at the program committee meeting (April?). Mike is 
very supportive. I think another useful idea would be to look at the 
HOPL I and II proceedings and attempt to contact all the authors 
regarding preserving their software.