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OT : on the trail of the original "Real Programmer"
- Subject: OT : on the trail of the original "Real Programmer"
- From: Jonno Downes <jonnosan@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:53:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Not exactly A2 related, but I suspect many of the denizens of this newsgroup will be familiar with the story of Mel, the original "Real Programmer" and his intimate familiarity of the internals of the RPC-4000 (a fascinating machine from a half century ago that used a rotating metal drum for random access memory).
I have been poking around various archives and pieced together a few artifacts - not yet a copy of the specific code in question, but interesting (to me at least) anyway.
I've summarized my findings so far at
http://www.jamtronix.com/blog/2011/03/25/on-the-trail-of-a-real-programmer/
Feedback and more links gratefully accepted here or on that blog post.
Cheers
Jonno