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In article <66...@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcg...@cs.tamu.edu (Tim McGuire) writes:

| In article <1990Jul14.2...@nmt.edu> jo...@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:
| >Years later I heard a rumor that explained how they could
| >generate a solid new APL implementation in such a short
| >time.  The 5100 used the IBM 1130 instruction set as its
| >internal micro-machine!  So its implementation had the
| >robustness that comes from many years of being tortured by
| >canny young programmers in small colleges all over the
| >country.
| 
| I remember the APL implementation on the 1130.  You essentially had to use
| the 1130 as a "personal computer".  It didn't make one very popular with the
| FORTRAN crowd who were used to batch processing.  Anyone out there who 
| actually used 1130 APL?

Yep, I spent many an afternoon hacking away at the IBM 1130 we had at
the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (public high school).  I was there
from fall 1971 to spring 1973, but I didn't take computers until my
second year.  While I did primilarly use Fortran in a batch card
environment, towards the end I did use APL and do all of the typical
'I can do this in one line of programming' that goes along with APL.

I remember once being left alone with instructions to shut the machine
down when I was done.  I did turn off the master power switch, only to
discover that you really had to shut off the periphials first
(everybody assumed that since I hung around, I knew how to shut things
down), and that I trashed the APL master disk.  As I recall, we got a
backup copy of the disk from a local community college.

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