[SPG_Active_Members] FW: Release of APL\360 source code

[Al Kossow]

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From: Len Shustek <len at shustek.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:05:37 -0700
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Subject: Release of APL\360 source code

Dear Friends of APL,

I'm pleased to report that on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ken
Iverson's book "A Programming Language", the Computer History Museum has
released the source code of APL\360 for non-commercial use. See the online
exhibit surrounding the code here:
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-progamming-language-source-code
/ 

This comes 40 years after I first squirrelled the code away on a magnetic
tape in my attic, and 10 years after starting the process of getting
permission from IBM to release it. It appears that collecting, preserving,
and presenting the history of software requires substantial persistence and
patience.

We did something similar for MacPaint source code a couple of years ago:
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/

Stay tuned for more.

Len Shustek
Chairman, Computer History Museum


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