From: Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
Even older. https://youtu.be/54-9SoeG1is
The video showed up in a new scientist article about old code.
Not sure how well the link will work since they tend to be a subscription based source. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535330-100-the-critical-computer-sy...
Thanks. As I remember (from reading American histories) the EDSAC was kind of a cut down copy of the EDVAC but it went into service sooner. Certainly M.V. Wilkes attended the 1946 summer school at the Moore School of Engineering where the design EDVAC was a major topic. Apparently the first stored program computer was the Machester "Baby", 11 months ahead of the EDSAC. But it wasn't actually useful. One of the key people programming the EDSAC was Beatrice Worsley, a Canadian. She helped write the square program. I never met her even though she died on a sabatical at the University of Waterloo, while I was a student there. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Worsley> I went to a talk by M.V. Wilkes in the 1970's. It's funny to realize 1976 is closer to 1949 (before I was born) to 2025. Apparently the LEO computer was derived from EDSAC. I always check on it when I visit the Science Museum (in London). It has been many years. I programmed a PDP-8. That seems to have an instruction set that is similar to the EDSAC. But the PDP-8 had core memory: random access. The ALU of the PDP-8/s was serial, just like that of the EDSAC.
Just curious. Anybody on this list ever use ZOPL?
No, but I knew the founder of GEAC before he founded it. <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/remembering-gus-german-pioneer-in-waterloo-computer-science> I also knew Bob Zarnke, but not Hugh Williams (all in that photo). I was in charge of the IBM 1620 mentioned in the caption, but starting four years later.