> On Aug 28, 2017, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > Related to this, did Bob Bemer ever preserve a copy of IBM COMTRAN > source? For those unaware of it, this was one of the predecessors of > COBOL. > …
It turns out that Paul Pierce’s IBSYS source tapes [1] include a version of the IBM COMTRAN (aka CT aka Commercial Translator) source code, and Rich Cornwell has extracted it and set up jobs to rebuild the translator and its library from source. See the bottom of his web page [2] for the jobs, tapes, and listings. Rich notes, "If he gets it to work, and wants to send some test jobs I would love that.” [1] http://www.piercefuller.com/oldibm-shadow/709x.html [2] http://sky-visions.com/ibm/ibsys_tapes.shtml