On 08/28/2017 10:43 AM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote: > IEEE Annals of the History of Computing just published (in past few months) > Paul McJones article "In Search of the Original Fortran Compiler". > > Many of us have been following Paul's efforts (and helping out in different > ways) for the past 15 years, via cctalk and other mailing lists, the SPG, and > Paul's website http://www.mcjones.org/paul/ > > It is very satisfying to see Paul's work published in an academic journal, > also very satisfying to see such a solid published shout-out for so many > resources (CHM, SPG, bitsavers. SIMH... many others) so important to us > classiccmp'ers. > > You can read the IEEE-published version at > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7974703 > > (I don't think you have to be an IEEE member to read this particular one.)
When I read the first paragraph of the paper, I immediately recalled the 1982 articles from IEEE Annals, when I still subscribed to it (I have the issue in my bookcase). It's too bad that the original source wasn't located--it certainly would have been interesting to look at. I remember FMS II from the 7090/94 machines, as well as FORTRAN II (card FORTRAN) and FORTRAN II-D (disk) on the 1620. "2 up and go" --Chuck
