HN Theater @HNTheaterMonth

See https://apl.wiki/APL_Campfire


Chat transcript:



18:59:05 From Curtis Jones : Took me a minute to recognize the code for the password! Good choice!
18:59:38 From Davin Church & Genny White : I liked it, too.
19:00:55 From Curtis Jones : My mother's life-insurance policy paid off when she died at 102. She had a financial manager who held the company's feet to the fire.
19:02:04 From Curtis Jones : Yes. We lost Larry Breed recently.
19:05:39 From Curtis Jones : Iverson, "A Programming Language" Originally published: December 1, 1962
19:12:57 From lobachevsky : audio finally working
19:14:34 From Curtis Jones : I expected great things from the APL Machine.
19:14:56 From Harry Saal : Hello all! Sorry to be late....
19:23:11 From Curtis Jones : Ron, Did you tell Catherine Lathwell about the Microsoft ApL manuals?
19:24:03 From Curtis Jones : Array operations in Excel are a big pain! I struggle to use them.
19:24:28 From Harry Saal : Half a pint is better than nothing at all!
19:24:35 From Adám Brudzewsky : Excel JUST added array VALUES very recently.
19:25:09 From lobachevsky : i heard the array stuff in excel got better with office 365
19:25:13 From Curtis Jones : Where are "array VALUES"?
19:27:20 From Adám Brudzewsky : A single cell containing an entire array, rather than an array simply being a range of cells.
19:27:32 From Davin Church & Genny White : Common Business Oriented Language! "readable"code! i (Genny) worked for Burroughs 1976-1984. Never Knew they had APL!
19:27:49 From Curtis Jones : Adam, Thank you.
19:28:24 From lobachevsky : i remember the file system overstrikes
19:28:59 From Adám Brudzewsky : lobachevsky, what do you mean?
19:29:32 From lobachevsky : burroughs apl file system had a raft of interesting overstrikes.
19:29:54 From lobachevsky : look at polivka ^ pakin, apl the language and its usage
19:30:44 From lobachevsky : apl\700 file system
19:31:01 From lobachevsky : p.533 on mine
19:31:28 From lobachevsky : i will eventually scan this book in
19:31:57 From Adám Brudzewsky : lobachevsky, see bottom of https;//apl.wiki/APL/700
19:32:59 From lobachevsky : yeah
19:36:07 From Curtis Jones : Were Burroughs and UMASS APLs two very separate APLs?
19:37:22 From lobachevsky : umass apl == aplum?
19:38:16 From Curtis Jones : I think so. I picked up a copy of
Clark Wiedmann, "APLUM Reference Manual", 2nd ed., 1975
at a used-book store in Cincinnati
19:38:53 From lobachevsky : i used aplum at one time, but never burroughs apl
19:39:09 From lobachevsky : i know that blue book you're talking about, lent mine and never got it back
19:39:21 From lobachevsky : missing for 40+ years
19:46:32 From Curtis Jones : Adam - Perhaps an invitation to Joey Tuttle of "Tuttle-Shively IO" or TSIO might be in order.
19:48:51 From lobachevsky : Used TSIO, emulated (faked) it in vsapl and apl2
19:50:53 From Adám Brudzewsky : https://themindcircle.com/move-5mb-ibm-hard-drive-1956/
19:51:30 From Curtis Jones : yup. Great link.
19:56:08 From Harry Saal : Sorry, I need to sign off now. Looking forward to the next Campfire!!
19:56:14 From Adám Brudzewsky : ○/
19:56:37 From Curtis Jones : Harry - bye. Look forward to seeing you again, or maybe at the CHM.
19:58:47 From Adám Brudzewsky : Curtis, what does it say?
19:59:27 From Curtis Jones : It's the Causeway pen for southpaws that was given away at the Scranton conference.
19:59:34 From Adám Brudzewsky : Oh.
20:02:28 From Curtis Jones : Adam - Thank you for putting this together!