The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision, is an early off-the-shelf computer. It was manufactured by the...
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History of personal computers (section LGP-30)
machine. The LGP-30 was an off-the-shelf vacuum-tube computer manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California. The LGP-30 was first manufactured...
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"bulk of the programming" on the 1959 ACT-1 compiler for the Royal McBee LGP-30 computer. In Nather's story, Kaye is portrayed as being prone to avoiding...
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uppercase letters K, S, N, J, F and L for the values 10 to 15. The Librascope LGP-30 (1956) used the letters F, G, J, K, Q and W for the values 10 to 15. On...
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and soon abandoned. It was also implemented at Dartmouth College on an LGP-30, but that implementation soon evolved into ALGOL 60. An implementation for...
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many later Burroughs machines also used Flexowriters The Librascope LGP-30 and LGP-21 The Packard Bell PB 250 The SEA CAB 500 The ALWAC III-E The English...
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antics: Mel Kaye. Librascope LGP-30: The drum memory computer referenced in the above story, also referenced on Librascope LGP-30. Librascope RPC-4000: Another...
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Librascope General Precision (LGP-30) desk-size computer acquired by Dartmouth College in 1959. Since the limited size of the LGP-30 (4K 31-bit words) precluded...
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17–18, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. p. 124. ISBN 9783642416507. LGP 30, technikum 29: Living Museum Pegasus at the V&A, Computer Conservation Society...
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Precision Electronic Computer Company, which sold and serviced the LGP-30 (in 1956) and LGP-21 (in 1963) single-user desk computers manufactured by the Librascope...
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Kay – Smalltalk, Dynabook, Object-oriented programming, Squeak Mel Kaye – LGP-30 and RPC-4000 machine code programmer at Royal McBee in the 1950s, famed...
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particular, there was an entire class of drum machines, like the UNIVAC 1101 and LGP-30, that share some features of the minicomputer class. Similar models using...
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or SSEM Altair 8800 both Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 versions Nord-100 LGP-30 LGP-21 Sage II SDS 940 SWTPC 6800 SEL-32 both Concept-32 and PowerNode systems...
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1954–1957 and the LGP-30 single-user desk computer in 1956, which was licensed from a computer he designed at Caltech called MINAC. The LGP-30 was moderately...
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Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow (the calculations were performed on a Royal McBee LGP-30 computer). Elsewhere he stated: One meteorologist remarked that if the theory...
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Journal. 54 (11): 1756–1772. doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxr002. Kruseman Aretz, F.E.J. (30 June 2003). "The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the Electrologica...
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interpretive system. The title is disputed by other machines, such as the LGP-30 (shipped in late 1956), and the DEC LINC (March 1962) and PDP-8 (March 1965)...
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pins, it provided all but bit 30 on the address pins. The Librascope LGP-30 was an early off-the-shelf computer. The LGP-30 was first manufactured in 1956...
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1962 to offer students a transition from flow-charting to programming the LGP-30. Lessons learned from implementing DOPE were subsequently applied to the...
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MIT. She developed software for predicting weather, programming on the LGP-30 and the PDP-1 computers at Marvin Minsky's Project MAC. Her work contributed...
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LGP-30 computer around 1959, which was programmed by undergraduates in assembly language. Kurtz and four students programmed the Dartmouth ALGOL 30 compiler...
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interactive fashion. Examples include such systems as the Bendix G15 and LGP-30 of 1956, and the Soviet MIR series of computers developed from 1965 to 1969...
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(LGP) is an American private equity investment firm founded in 1989 and based in Los Angeles. The firm specializes in private equity investments. LGP has...
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computers for ordinary people. After early experiments with ALGOL 30 and DOPE on the LGP-30, they invented the BASIC programming language in 1964, as well...
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and Margaret Hamilton were using a simple digital computer, a Royal McBee LGP-30, to run weather simulations. They wanted to see a sequence of data again...
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... 100 d — 10 d d 1 d 1956 ARMAC 34 bit w w 1⁄2w w 5 bit, 6 bit 1956 LGP-30 31 bit w — 16 bit w 6 bit 1958 UNIVAC II 12 d w — 1⁄2w w 1 d 1958 SAGE 32...
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a Manhattan Project veteran and early ENIAC programmer, to design the LGP-30 desk computer in 1956. In 1964 Librascope's Avionic Equipment Division at...
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life and work of Prof. N.J. Lehmann]. www.math.tu-dresden.de. pp. 7–11. LGP 30, technikum 29: Living Museum Pegasus at the V&A, Computer Conservation Society...
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code-breaking machine used paper tapes to hold data (replica shown). This 1956 LGP-30 relied on paper tape to store data and programs. Tape reader used with a...
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performance. In 1959, the school received its first computer, the drum-based LGP-30. One student wrote a FORTRAN-inspired language called DART for the machine...
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