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Gotta agree with you there - IIRC, he's also working on an Alto, plus a Symbolics LISP machine - and I think, IIRC, he helped to get the IBM 1401 transistor mai
by cr0sh 7y ago
Gotta agree with you there - IIRC, he's also working on an Alto, plus a Symbolics LISP machine - and I think, IIRC, he helped to get the IBM 1401 transistor mainframe at the Mountain View Computer History Museum working, too.
Just looked that last one up - yep.
http://www.righto.com/2018/09/the-printer-that-wouldnt-print-fixing.html http://www.righto.com/2018/09/the-printer-that-wouldnt-print...
The other two:
http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldnt-seek.html http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldn...
But I seem to be wrong on the Lisp machine? I couldn't find anything on it, but I could have sworn somebody has been working on getting one into operating condition for a while now (it's been a slow process)...
Anybody know?
- kens 7y agoJust to keep things straight... The Lisp machine isn't me and I don't know anyone working on one. As for the IBM 1401, I can't take credit for getting it working; I joined the team later and help keep it running. Currently I'm working on an IBM 360/50 microcode emulator and reverse-engineering an early FPGA chip.
- rjsw 7y agoThere is one Lisp Machine renovation project that I know of [1]. Haven't been any updates for a while, the dates against the blog posts are wrong too. [1] https://www.orinrin.land/lispm/ https://www.orinrin.land/lispm/