[Bug-apl] re early apl on a pc

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e***@gmx.com

2017-02-25 14:55:36 UTC

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

The first microcomputer implementation of APL was on the Intel 8008-based MCM/70, the first general purpose personal computer, in 1973. Size of arrays along any dimension could not be larger than 255 and the machine was quite slow, but very convenient for education purposes.

does any one have any experience with this ...

i had always thought that the ibm 5100 was the first 'personal computer' that ran apl

Juergen Sauermann

2017-02-25 15:16:31 UTC

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Hi, 
 
these days there exist many emulators for various old machines.
Maybe someone has a 
copy of that old APL somewhere? I suppose the current emulators
are much faster than their 
old originals. 
 
/// Jürgen 
 
 
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The first microcomputer implementation of APL was on the Intel 8008-based MCM/70, the first general purpose personal computer, in 1973. Size of arrays along any dimension could not be larger than 255 and the machine was quite slow, but very convenient for education purposes.

does any one have any experience with this ...

i had always thought that the ibm 5100 was the first 'personal computer' that ran apl

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Peter Teeson

2017-02-25 17:53:50 UTC

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If my memory is correct it was Gord Rahmer who implemented the interpreter on the MCM.
When I was doing my undergraduate courses at York University in Toronto. He taught one of them and introduced me to APL.
York ran an APL interpreter on their mainframe. He also introduced me to I.P. Sharp Associates whom I later joined.
<http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/ <http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/>>

Hi,
these days there exist many emulators for various old machines. Maybe someone has a
copy of that old APL somewhere? I suppose the current emulators are much faster than their
old originals.
/// Jürgen

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)>
The first microcomputer implementation of APL was on the Intel 8008-based MCM/70, the first general purpose personal computer, in 1973. Size of arrays along any dimension could not be larger than 255 and the machine was quite slow, but very convenient for education purposes.
does any one have any experience with this ...
i had always thought that the ibm 5100 was the first 'personal computer' that ran apl

e***@gmx.com

2017-02-25 18:59:11 UTC

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I spent many a night on York APL - that was what we connected to at SUNY from a real TTY (TeleType terminal with paper tape rolls as 'hard copy' - using backspace to make the ⍕⍋ double strike chars) but sometime later they switched us to APLUM (u maryland ? or mass?) with the ibm 2471 (with the famous apl ibm type ball - i still have it - they made us buy them for our own use) when they upgraded to modems and i have saxapl 621 right here .. i've heard rumours of 621b's existance!

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Post by Peter Teeson
If my memory is correct it was Gord Rahmer who implemented the interpreter on the MCM.
When I was doing my undergraduate courses at York University in Toronto. He taught one of them and introduced me to APL.
York ran an APL interpreter on their mainframe. He also introduced me to I.P. Sharp Associates whom I later joined.
<http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/ <http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/>>