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Box 606733913

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Contains 8 Results:

'Subroutines written for the LISP System', n.d.

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.133
Six-page typescript note 'Subroutines written for the LISP System', beginning 'In order that programming effort among those interested in the Strachey Lisp system may be coordinated...' (not by Strachey).
Extents: 1 file
Dates: n.d.

'L.B. for Pegasus etc', Sep 1960-Feb 1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.134
Folder of notes and calculations. An attempt to test Basic Language (BL) programs on other computers, including Pegasus, Orion, and Edsac II.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Sep 1960-Feb 1961

'LISP Progs.', n.d.

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.135
Five bundles of undated notes: 'Basic Language Structure' (B.L. sometimes L.B.) 'B-List C-List' 'List Program' 'General form of writing List programs' 'Define Macro'
Extents: 1 file
Dates: n.d.

'Polynomial Operations', Sep-Oct 1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.128
Miscellaneous bundles of notes, calculations and narrative. These are almost entirely mathematical, one set being headed 'EMI 2400. Restricted Rational Fractions and Integers'.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Sep-Oct 1961

Notes, calculations and printouts, 1961-1962

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.129
Included with one bundle is a letter from Strachey to N. Brown (E.M.I.) October 1961: 'here are the machine language functions and the LISP functions for performing arithmetic on rational fractions'.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1961-1962

EMIDEC 2400, Oct-Nov 1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.130
Copy of the official Design Specification for the EMIDEC 2400 computer, compiled by N. Brown, October 1961, and approved by C. Dain, November 1961. On the cover and title page the 2 and 00 are crossed out in the model number.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Oct-Nov 1961

Miscellaneous narratives and notes, Mar-Apr 1962

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.131
Miscellaneous narratives and notes on various topics, e.g. time-sharing, control strings, evaluation, etc.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Mar-Apr 1962

Draft manual or description for a LISP language, 1962-1973

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 267/C.132
Tagged folder of notes (various dates May-July 1962), with separate bundles and loose pages of notes (various dates October 1961-October 1962) all kept together, with a note by Strachey added. c.1973: 'LISP-like system. Probably for EMIDEC 2400?'.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1962-1973