[SPG_Active_Members] Here it is! - APL for the Burroughs B5500

[Nigel Williams]

Paul Kimpel has deftly completed a scan of the source-code listing of
the UW CSG APL for the Burroughs B5500 and it can now be downloaded
from here (43 megabyte PDF 89 pages):

http://www.phkimpel.us/APL-B5500-Listing-19710111.pdf

We added a cover page with details and several corrections to
compensate for minor imperfections due to the available scanning
equipment. With these corrections and some careful attention the
listing is 100% complete and a solid basis for transcribing.

I urge everyone to grab a copy and share the link with whomever so it
can be scattered far and wide, the more copies the better;  hopefully
far into the future copies will be easily found rather than relying on
the serendipitous chain of events we have experienced over the last
few months.

I would also direct everyone to the GeorgiaTech user manual for their
version of this APL. The GeorgiaTech document also has an interesting
comparison between APL\360 and APL/B5500.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/georgiaTech/Georgia_Tech_B5500_APL_Aug71.pdf

Thanks again to Ed Vandergriff for preserving this implementation of
APL. This has been an unexpectedly rapid recovery; some historic
software artefacts seem to yield themselves up quicker than expected,
others remain stubbornly and persistently missing.