> On Mar 3, 2026, at 5:40 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> As a student at UC Berkeley (1967-1971), I had a part-time job at the
> Computer Center, which ran a CDC 6400 under SCOPE. We punched cards,
> transferred them to magnetic tape, and used UPDATE to maintain logical decks.
> I personally used this technology while working on CAL SNOBOL and CAL TSS.
> Once we got CAL TSS far enough along to support development (on a second CDC
> 6400), we switched to Teletypes (a mixture of Model 33’s and Model 35’s). I
> still have source code for CAL SNOBOL because of archivists at U. of Arizona
> and U. of Texas, but most of the source code for CAL TSS was lost (listings
> survive).
It would be neat to OCR, or if desperate retype, those listings and bring CAL
TSS back to life.
paul
