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

[Rob Jarratt]

"Rich Alderson"  wrote in message news:mdd7frnt2ou.fsf at panix5.panix.com...

"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.

Rich,

Thank you very much for looking. I was convinced it was DECUS, but as we are 
talking more than 35 years ago, clearly my memory has dropped a few bits. 
Just in case you, I recall the file was called A68.EXE or perhaps A68C.EXE.

Thanks

Rob