I have a VERY OLD listing of FOCAL-69 PAL-8 source (printed by, as I recall,
a Centronics 101 printer attached to a Straight-8). It'd take some
serious digging to find it, but I know it's around here somewhere.
It's an amazing piece of programming. I spent a lot of time many years
(like, oh,
23 years ago) ago figuring out how it all worked, and wrote a FOCAL
interpreter,
in, get this--- HP 2000F Timeshare BASIC. Needless to say, it was kind of
slow...but it worked.
I should dig it out and type it in...it wouldn't take too long. It's old
enough that it's probably beyond scanning.
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculators Web Museum
http://www.geocities.com/oldcalculators
Kevin McQuiggin wrote, in response to a query by Jon Andrews:
>
> Hi Jon:
>
> I don't have the FOCAL source. I'm not sure it is available.
> Anyone comment?
>
> Kevin
>
Jon wrote:
> >Do you have the original source code for focal....I've looked at the
> >focal.txt file, but i'd like to know how everything works
> >
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 22:41:35 GMT