[Info-vax] Old DECUS VMS SIG tapes (pre-1984)

[Rich Alderson]

"Rob Jarratt" <no.spam at no.sp.am> writes:

>>  "glen herrmannsfeldt"  wrote in message 
>>  news:mirc6v$m0g$2 at speranza.aioe.org...

>>> I would like to find DECUS tapes for the DECSYSTEM-20. I used to use
>>> ALGOL68C on a DECSYSTEM-20 and I believe it came from a DECUS tape, 
>>> although
>>> I can't be 100% sure. I would love to find ALGOL68C for this system 
>>> again.

>> Do you know which tape it is on?

>> Rumor is that we have (copies of) all such tapes for 36 bit software.

It's not a rumor.  XKL installed the complete DECUS libraries on every Toad-1
we sold.

> Sorry for the delay replying. I have no idea what tape it would be on (or 
> even if it really was DECUS, my memory may well be faulty here), I was only 
> a schoolkid at the time.

Rob,

I've looked at the directories on the Toad-1 here.  There is an early ALGOL.EXE
(from the Tops-10 5.03 timeframe), and Tops-10 and TOPS-20 variants of ALGOLW
(which as I recall was an Algol-60, also).  No sign of an Algol-68.  Not a
DECUS thing, then.

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