Category: Retrocomputing

(via email) Derek’s Virtual Slide Rule Gallery (A gallery of clickable simulated slide rules) I guess Alan Turing was right — you really can emulate any computer on any other computer. 🙂

I recently stumbled upon NASE A60, an open source Algol 60 interpreter. Having learned a more “modern” Algol (on Burroughs computers in the early/mid 80’s), I think it’s kind of neat to revisit this language, which, according to The Retrocomputing Museum, is “the common ancestor of C, Pascal, Algol-68, Modula, Ada, and most other conventional … Continue reading “Algol 60”