{"id":32,"date":"2004-10-10T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/10\/10\/32\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T03:52:35","slug":"fortran-ii-source-in-paul-pierces-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/10\/10\/32\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortran II source in Paul Pierce’s collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last Friday, Bob Abeles posted a comment here<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nThe IBSYS tapes on Paul Pierce\u2019s site contain the source for FAP, FORTRAN II, FMS (version that ran under IBSYS), plus lots of other goodies. I wrote a program several years ago that extracts the sources. I\u2019ll try to dig it up this weekend and will post a followup next week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I had looked through Paul’s Yale SHARE tapes, but had not thought of looking at the IBSYS tapes. Sure enough, pr130-3.bcd<\/a>, when converted with Paul’s bcd2txt<\/a>, contains source code for something that calls itself “32K 709\/7090 FORTRAN” and that consists of sections one through six with comments corresponding exactly to Backus’s descriptions (see for example Backus et al., “The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System<\/a>“, Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference<\/em>, Los Angeles, California, February 1957 and John Backus, “The history of FORTRAN I, II, and III”<\/a>, Proceedings of the First ACM SIGPLAN Conference on History of Programming Languages<\/em>, Los Angeles, California, 1978″).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is very exciting. Given the progress<\/a> running IBSYS Fortran IV and Cobol on Rob Storey’s 7094 emulator, we may be able to run Fortran II!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update<\/strong> 2015\/01\/07: Updated URL for Rob’s progress posting; added link for Backus et al. 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, Bob Abeles posted a comment here saying: The IBSYS tapes on Paul Pierce\u2019s site contain the source for FAP, FORTRAN II, FMS (version that ran under IBSYS), plus lots of other goodies. I wrote a program several years ago that extracts the sources. I\u2019ll try to dig it up this weekend and will … Continue reading “Fortran II source in Paul Pierce’s collection”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}