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  • Early history (was: Getting LOGO)

    From enkidu99@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Leigh L Klotz Jr on Wed Apr 25 07:25:27 2018
    On Friday, December 15, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Leigh L Klotz Jr wrote:
    In article <4a9mvd$r6b@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
    Montpetit, a Canadian
    entrepeneur, funded development eventually, and a company called
    General Turtle was formed. General Turtle built and sold the 2500/3500 system. Henry Minsky, then about 12, worked on the design of the
    2500, using the Stanford Draw program, one of the early electronics
    CAD systems. (The 2500 had this really great barrell shifter stolen
    from the Lisp machine design, but it was later found not to work, so
    it was never used.)


    Anyone have a photo of the General Turtle machine? Brian had borrowed one at our high school around 1979 and I can't seem to find any photo online.

    Thanks,

    jv

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to enkidu99@gmail.com on Mon May 14 12:01:11 2018
    enkidu99@gmail.com wrote:
    Anyone have a photo of the General Turtle machine?

    Here's a video uploaded by Cynthia Solomon. Seems legit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4kMzrDr4jQ

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 14 12:10:35 2018
    Hello,

    I'm mostly researching PDP-10 software, especially MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System.

    I have recently stumbled across some of the LOGO group work. I have a
    copy of the Dazzle Dart game that ran on their PDP-11/45. It uses the
    Tom Knight vector display controller, so it's not easy to run it.

    Maybe it would be possible to get the original MIT PDP-11 LOGO running.

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to Lars Brinkhoff on Sun Sep 9 17:16:54 2018
    Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
    Maybe it would be possible to get the original MIT PDP-11 LOGO running.

    It's running now.

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to Lars Brinkhoff on Mon Oct 1 18:24:00 2018
    Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
    Maybe it would be possible to get the original MIT PDP-11 LOGO running.

    It's running now.

    Now also BBN PDP-10 Logo, MIT CLOGO, MIT Lisp Logo, and hopefully soon
    MIT Apple II Logo (direct ancestor of Terrapin Apple II Logo).

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