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Executable Archaeology: Simon's Version of Yngve's Sentence Generator (1961) (github.com/jeffshrager)
2 points by abrax3141 17 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I know I'm not supposed to follow up my own posts, but this is truly an amazing update! We (being Claude and I) just got Simon and his Daughter's 1962 IPL-V version of Victor Yngve's famous (1961) random sentence generator (originally in COMIT), to run on Paul Kimpel's amazing IBM 1620 emulator using Beyer and MacDonald's 1963 IPL-V comterpreter (from U Oregon)! If you don't want to wade through all the running of it yourself (which, BTW, I highly recommend, it's AWESOME TO SEE IT ACTUALLY RUN!) you can see the output at: https://github.com/jeffshrager/ExecutableArchaeology/blob/ma...


New video of this running, including complete instructions on how to make it run yourself: https://youtu.be/Mfai7F6j3vE




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