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: Right, but that's not mass storage (which means disk or tapes). None of the ones at Tech Sq had that, or paper tape (although I might be wrong about the latter), although I see online that they did make disks available later - they even had a FORTRAN compiler than ran on them! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 19:28, 19 December 2018 (CET) | : Right, but that's not mass storage (which means disk or tapes). None of the ones at Tech Sq had that, or paper tape (although I might be wrong about the latter), although I see online that they did make disks available later - they even had a FORTRAN compiler than ran on them! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 19:28, 19 December 2018 (CET) | ||
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| + | Looking at original scanned documentation, the name was usually written 'IMLAC', but on rare occasion on finds 'Imlac' (e.g. in the [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/imlac/PDS-1_TechnicalMan.pdf IMLAC PDS-1 Programmable Display System Preliminary Technical and Operator Manual], pg. 5 (of the PDF). I'm going to go with 'IMLAC', since that is what's most common in the original documentation. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:30, 9 June 2025 (CEST) | ||
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Storage devices
I did have paper tape. Larsbrinkhoff (talk) 18:39, 19 December 2018 (CET)
- Right, but that's not mass storage (which means disk or tapes). None of the ones at Tech Sq had that, or paper tape (although I might be wrong about the latter), although I see online that they did make disks available later - they even had a FORTRAN compiler than ran on them! Jnc (talk) 19:28, 19 December 2018 (CET)
Name case
Looking at original scanned documentation, the name was usually written 'IMLAC', but on rare occasion on finds 'Imlac' (e.g. in the IMLAC PDS-1 Programmable Display System Preliminary Technical and Operator Manual, pg. 5 (of the PDF). I'm going to go with 'IMLAC', since that is what's most common in the original documentation. Jnc (talk) 15:30, 9 June 2025 (CEST)
