{"id":34,"date":"2004-11-28T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T23:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/11\/28\/34\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T03:59:06","slug":"historic-software-at-bitsaversorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/11\/28\/34\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic software at bitsavers.org"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the majority of items at Al Kossow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsavers.org\/\">bitsavers.org<\/a> are scanned copies of manuals, he also has software in source and\/or executable form for a variety of machines (scroll down to &#8220;The Software Archive&#8221;) .  Some of the oldest include MIT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsavers.org\/bits\/MIT\/tx-0\/\">TX-0<\/a> and DEC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsavers.org\/bits\/DEC\/pdp1\/\">PDP-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His manual collection also includes scanned copies of source code listings for some historic machines, including MIT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsavers.org\/pdf\/mit\/whirlwind\/Subroutines.pdf\"> Whirlwind<\/a> and The University of Illionois&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitsavers.org\/pdf\/univOfIllinoisUrbana\/illiac\/ILLIAC\/\">ILLIAC I<\/a> (scanned from hardcopies belonging to Wayne Lichtenberger).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al notes that <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230403055344\/http:\/\/members.iinet.net.au\/~dgreen\/silliac.html\">David Gree<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/members.iinet.net.au\/~dgreen\/silliac.html\">n<\/a> is writing a simulator for the version of the ILLIAC built at the University of Sydney.<br \/> <em><br \/><\/em><strong>Update<\/strong> [when?]: TX-0, PDP-1, and ILLIAC I URLs following changes at bitsavers.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> 2024\/05\/07: David Green&#8217;s URL via Internet Archive Wayback Machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the majority of items at Al Kossow&#8217;s bitsavers.org are scanned copies of manuals, he also has software in source and\/or executable form for a variety of machines (scroll down to &#8220;The Software Archive&#8221;) . Some of the oldest include MIT&#8217;s TX-0 and DEC&#8217;s PDP-1. His manual collection also includes scanned copies of source code &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/11\/28\/34\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Historic software at bitsavers.org&#8221;<\/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":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repositories","category-simulators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}