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DJR wrote: I just remembered I do have something machine readable - I have paper tapes of the assembler source for my PDP8 music compiler which must date from around 1966. The PDP8 itself is in storage in the Chambers St. museum I think. Somebody should get it going - maybe Jimmy Johnstone before he retires this summer!
I second the latter sentiment with a proviso - we know we can't keep these old machines going for ever (some of the students in my own year along with some from Ian Young's year kept the 9/15 running for two years after the support budget for it ran out but even it eventually had to go. The power cost alone was too high) - so it would be great to get a machine like this up and running again just long enough to write an emulator and make sure it was a perfect match for the real thing. Then it would live on forever...
(however this is not in the scope of our project at the moment)
-- Graham
David added: I don't have anything machine readable but I have lots of printed stuff that I've kept as souvenirs. It might be worth asking the (new) EUCS how far back their archive tapes go, and also the DCS (as was). I never lost a file with the ERCC, I remember, over about 20 years. I have got listings of some of the EMAS stuff I wrote in the early 70's: Director 714 (30/6/72) and CEDRIC 703 (2/6/72) plus many of the manuals we wrote at the time. I also have a listing of the last EMAS2900 kernel I wrote, dated 26/2/80. The earliest stuff I have is `Computer Unit Report No. 2 : A Guide to a Survey Program for Atlas', dated November 1965 (probably a unique copy, by now)!
I have asked David if he would approach the EUCS (ERCC) on our behalf. Chris Whitfield also mentioned that there was a reference dump done once of the completed EMAS system, which would be a great thing to find.
I know I remember stories of the EMAS team boasting about how the complete sources could fit in a briefcase and I think there may indeed have been a briefcase at one time with a complete printout in it, for effect when giving talks. I wonder... 
Graham
Later note: we never found the mythical briefcase but we did find a significant set of sources for both Emas-2900 and Emas3 in the EMAS tape archives. We never found much from the original ICL4/75 version of EMAS however.
