[SCC_Active_Members] RE: ILLIAC I Stuff

[Dag Spicer]

Thanks John!

SCC members: please be gentle!

LOL!

John has kindly agreed to 'make himself known' as the donor of the
ILLIAC materials noted earlier this week... 

Ref: http://www.computerhistory.org/temp_images/software/march_6_2006/

Cheers,

Dag.



-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Ehrman [mailto:ehrman at vnet.ibm.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:16 PM
To: Dag Spicer
Subject: ILLIAC I Stuff

Dag, it's OK to mention me.

The stuff I left this time was mainly listings of ILLIAC programs,
but some time ago I donated a bunch of library routine descriptions
(which in ILLIAC days always included the source code).

I'll be happy to answer any questions about any ILLIAC materials
as best I can.
Regards... John
    (------------------ Referenced Note Follows --------------------)
Subject: FW: [SCC_Active_Members] Incoming Software Listings!
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:20:41 -0800
From: "Dag Spicer" <spicer at computerhistory.org>
To: "John R. Ehrman" <ehrman at stlvm27>

Hi John,

Not sure if you're on our software collections committee list... but
members were wondering if they could find out who donated the recent
ILLIAC materials (you!).

I won't release your name without your permission.

Are you open to people knowing you are the donor?  It will likely result
in interesting inquiries and garnering more info on the programs from
you... both of which would make these great items even more useful.

Best wishes,

Dag.
-----Original Message-----
From: scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org
[mailto:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of Van Snyder
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:49 AM
To: SCC active
Subject: Re: [SCC_Active_Members] Incoming Software Listings!

A now-retired colleague who used Illiac I as a student says the
representations of 10-15 in hex were KSNJFL, because that's how they
came out in FIGS mode on a baudot-code teletype. He had two mnemonics
to remember them:

King Size Numbers Just For Laughs
Kind Souls Never Jostle Fat Ladies

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On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 08:30 -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Paul McJones wrote:
>
> > Dag,
> >
> > The Illiac software looks pretty interesting. Does the donor want
> > to remain anonymous? I wonder if he/she provided any information
> > about the software -- how they came across it, etc.? As you probably
> > know, Wayne Lichtenberger preserved several volumes of documentation
> > of Illiac program libraries, which seem to include the source code.
> > Al Kossow has scanned them -- see http://bitsavers.org/pdf/illiac/
> > ILLIAC/ .
> > I wonder how much overlap there is between this newest donation and

> > the Lichtenberger materials?
>
> Hopefully, I'll be able to scan the new additions.
>
> This is also the first program for ILLIAC II that
> I have heard of. The museum has a nice collection
> of hardware documentation for the II, and some on
> the III and IV which I'd like to scan as well.
>
> Wayne also saved a dump of the Illiac I drum onto
> paper tape which has been read.
>
> Someone years ago got far enough into a simulation
> to say that the drum dump was good, but stopped
> returning emails.