History

• DMIP
• AI
  Artificial Intelligence - Recollections of the Pioneers
• PLU
• Computer Unit (1963)
  Split into Computer Science and the ERCC in 1966.
• Computer Science
• ERCC

Computer Systems and Hardware

• Departmental Links (1Mbit serial interfaces)
• RTM Kits
• 6809 kits
• APM (Fred Machine)
• Charles Graphics (LSI-11)
• TO DO: GDMR thinks there are some old "new" filestore backups around on 1/2" tape, and some VMS ones too. He may have paper listings of his filestore code (the version that ran on the VAX and the Fred-machines, and not either of Hamish's originals).

Operating Systems

• EMAS
• PDP9/15 Imp System > 12. PDP-9/15 source
• ISYS
  Gordon Brebner has the following on paper:
  > 3. ISYS system documentation > 11. ISYS 70 source > 5. ISYS 80 manual, Filestore manual and HAL 70 manual
• LEGOS
• Filestore Mk I
• Filestore Mk II
  GDMR wrote:

  > I have some of those on paper too.  I've also found load of Fred-machine
  > documentation, some filestore documentation, and a printout of the
  > filestore source.  And I've got some 1/2" tapes containing filestore
  > backups, which might have some useful stuff on them if we could manage to
  > read them off.
  >
  > I have a feeling that I put a load of things to the ERCC archive service
  > too at one point.  I've no idea if they're still around...
  

• APM OS (Fred Machine)
• ICL7502 > 4. HAL 7502 manual, and 7502 "OS" software
• MOUSES
• Deimos > 10. DEIMOS PDP-11 OS (by Brian Gilmore - now Director of EUCS)
• GUTS

Languages

• Atlas Autocode
• Imp
  Harry Whitfield wrote: During the EMAS project, there was an IMP compiler developed which could measure the vagrancy of an executing program and then rearrange the code to reduce the number of page faults. The compiler on which this was based was abandoned, so this clever idea was never put into production. The IMP compilers (developed by PDS) which survived were based on the original AA/IMP compilers.
• HAL
• POP
• LOGO
• ML
• Prolog
• Pascal, Fortran, C
• Fred's compatible assemblers

Other Software

• ECCE
• Edwin
• FEPs
• ERTE
• VLSI tools
• Databases; Persistent Languages
• Games
• Music
  Harry Whitfield wrote: One of the first compilers written in Buccleuch Place was a music compiler for the new PDP8 by David Rees. If I remember correctly, this compiled up to four voices into an intermediate code, which was then interpreted and played by pulsing the loudspeaker of the PDP8. I think I wrote the interpreter/player. At the time, we made some tape recordings of our efforts.

Papers

• Harry Whitfield
  

  Edinburgh History  --  Documents held by Harry Whitfield
  --------------------------------------------------------
  
  ATLAS AUTOCODE FOR KDF9
  -----------------------
  
  ATLAS AUTOCODE COMPILER FOR KDF9 - COMPUTER UNIT REPORT 4 - 1st October 1965
  
  AA DOCUMENTATION - Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - Describe the structure of the (KDF9)
  AA Compiler. Also Version I and Version K source listings.
  
  IMP
  ---
  
  IMP 75 PRELIMINARY REFERENCE MANUAL, I.N.5 - 15.9.69.
  
  PROGRAMMING IN IMP, EMAP/41.5/0026, Revised 1st October 1969.
  
  EMAS
  ----
  
  EMAP Technical Committee Minutes EMAP/41.0/0001 to EMAP/41.0/0051
  
  EMAP Technical Committee Reports EMAP/41.5/0001 to EMAP/41.5/0034
  apart from the big manuals.
  
  EMAS (SYSTEM 4-75) HARDWARE SUMMARY.
  
  MULTI-ACCESS SYSTEM MANUAL  SYSTEM 4-75, 11/1/67
  
  EMAS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 4-75/1: SCHEDULING -- EMAP/41.5/0013, 26/3/67.
  
  EMAS TYPICAL USER FACILITIES, I.N.2 - 20/9/67.
  
  EMAS PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 4-75/6: STORAGE CONTROL -- 29/4/68
  
  A Syntactic Macro Scheme, A.Freeman, June 1969.
  
  SYSTEM 4-75 EMAS PRIMARY SUBSYSTEM REFERENCE MANUAL -- 1.5.70.
  
  EMAS PROVISIONAL SYSTEM MANUAL 1 August 1967.
  
  SYSTEM 4-75 EMAS OPERATORS MANUAL, 22/1/70.
  
  SYSTEM 4-75 EMAS REFERENCE MANUAL (EMAP/41.5/0028), July 1970.
  
  SYSTEM 4-75 EMAS REFERENCE MANUAL, SEPTEMBER 1971
  
  EMAS USER MANUAL, Preliminary Edition, April 1972.
  
  EMAS USER MANUAL, First Edition, October 1972.
  
  SYSTEM 4-75 EMAS SUBSYSTEM REFERENCE MANUAL, (Draft) May 1973.
  
  EMAS Reports 1 to 7, April 1974 - February 1975.
  These are reprints of papers published (mainly) in the Computer Journal.
  
  EMAS Operators Manual, First Edition, October 1976.
  
  EMAS User's Guide, December 1976.
  

• David Rees
  

  > 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)!
  

• Gordon Brebner
  

  > A quick look through my history box yielded, on paper:
  > 1. sources for all my Vax networking stuff
  > 2. EMAS and EMAS 2900 reference cards
  > 3. ISYS system documentation
  > 4. HAL 7502 manual, and 7502 "OS" software
  > 5. ISYS 80 manual, Filestore manual and HAL 70 manual
  > 6. ECSD LISP manual (Nick Shelness)
  > 7. Noddy Goes to the Machine Halls (Kathy, 78/79)
  > 8. Sticks & Stones manual (Luca)
  > 9. my CS4 operating system
  > 10. DEIMOS PDP-11 OS (by Brian Gilmore - now Director of EUCS)
  > 11. ISYS 70 source
  > 12. PDP-9/15 source
  > 13. a few bits of EMAS 2900

People

Pending

• Alastair Scobie?
  > Does anyone on the list know if there was ever a full backup made
  > of the department Vax at any time?
  GDMR wrote:
  I think Alastair has some exabyte tapes, though I don't know their vintage. I've not had time to get our geriatric drive hooked up to read them though.