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The ICL7502 was a remote job entry terminal from ICL which Hamish Dewar somehow managed to turn into a real computer. There was a HAL cross-assembler which targeted this system, and a screen-based version of ECCE. Although we have not yet found the source of the OS, we did find the source of the runtime I/O library, and the Towers of Hanoi program.
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runtime I/O library, and the 