7 Jan
2019
7 Jan
'19
1:11 p.m.
As an interesting side note on this, FORTH was created on the IBM 1130. Chuck Moore wanted to name it FOURTH, but the 1130 only had 5 character file names.
In 2011, I contacted Chuck to see if he had and left over materials from the 1130 FORTH days. He found some old listings and sent them to me, but I didn't notice what he had sent.
Last year, Carl Claunch asked me if I had ever gotten anything from Chuck, so I went back and looked. I had about 12 pages of code, and I forwarded it to Carl. It turned out to be the entire code for a very early version of FORTH. Carl has been working on it to get it running again on his 1130.
One day we'll find people to restore our 1130.