Definitely for the 2741; I don't recall whether APL supported the 2740 or 1050. 
And, of course, there were APL options on many 3270 devices.


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There was an APL golf ball for the Selectric family of devices.

Charles


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I might believe special golf ball. While I never used APL, and din't find
the lack of control structures desirable, I very much liked the concept of
operators and reduction.


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Reminds of of the IBM 'guy' we had on-site daily at my fist gig, he had
a 'special' terminal at our site and coded in a language that eludes me
right now - man do I feel old now that I cannot remember stuff

Carmen

On 3/24/2022 12:05 PM, Pierre Fichaud wrote:
> I haven't heard the term ABP mentioned in over 20 years.
> That brings back memories of stuff I did early in my career.
>
> I remember using IBM's FORMAC compiler (or pre-processor) sometime in the
mid 70s (I think).
> IIRC, it generated PL/1 code.
> I can't remember what I did but I didn't spend a lot of time on it.
>
> Pierre.
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