I though you'd be interested in a part of an email I just received from Lee
Courtney, who is the secretary of the Computer History Museum's Software
Collection Committee. The Paul he mentioned is the fellow heading up the
Fortran preservation project. I received a number of congratulations to the
team from other members of the SCC as well. NLS is very well known and
highly regarded; this project and our approach seems to have captured
people's imaginations. (01)
>A data point related to your NLS work. We have at the Museum a XKL Toad-1
>system that is not powered up, but fully operational. This machine runs
>TOPS-20, but I'm not sure what release. If we ever wanted to run NLS on real
>TOPS-20 (admitedly no DEC hardware) that would be feasible. Actually during
>your presentation I was thinking getting NLS up and running on the TOAD
>could be considered our first software "restoration" project.
>
>We also have a complete set of TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 source. Several hundred
>1/2" magnetic tapes. All this material was donated middle of last year from
>a former DEC/COMPAQ/HP engineer who worked in that area.
>
>Let me know if you'd like to discuss this in more detail. Right now you'll
>probably make more progress using the emulator approach.
>
>Great progress on NLS and a great job. You and Paul are really fulfilling
>the vision I think a lot of us have on how the software collection process
>would unfold. (02)
Philip Gust
Nouveau Systems, Inc. (03)
phone: +1 650 961-7992
fax: +1 508 526-8142 (04)
mailto: gust@NouveauSystems.com (05)
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