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David of the Usagi Electric youtube channel received an LGP-21 computer (not Mel's LGP-30) a while ago which will become a future channel project. But along wit
by alnwlsn 1y ago
David of the Usagi Electric youtube channel received an LGP-21 computer (not Mel's LGP-30) a while ago which will become a future channel project. But along with it, he received a binder of LGP-30 code... with a bunch of programs written by Mel himself!
Apparently, Mel worked for Librascope for quite a while and wrote a lot of stuff. Mel's code is supposedly somewhat better commented and less cryptic than he is usually credited for (though from what I've heard self-modifying code on the LGP-30 was a somewhat intended feature). Whether or not that applies to Mel's blackjack program is probably anyone's guess. A paper tape dump of it is known to be out there, but I don't think the source code is.
The idea is to study some of those programs and maybe port a few to understand how the LGP-21 works (they are supposed to be similar), since so far I don't think much documentation on the LGP-21 has been found.