Software Serendipity
 Atlas Shutdown in September 1971 |
I wrote my first program in 1971 in an algol like language called Atlas Autocode.
Later that year the Manchester Atlas computer was decommissioned and replaced by something called MU5 ( a prototype computer which was the single most important influence on design of the ICL 2900 range which was eventually launched in the mid-70's).
In 1975 I moved sideways from railway signalling into DP (as IT was know then) and joined the TOPS project as a junior system programmer, writing a system in Assembler and PL/1 to produce statistics on the performance of the online system.
In the 80's I worked for TECS (Thorn EMI computer software) supporting and developing mainframe software products containing 250-400K lines of software code.
So the assembler hints and tips section here came out of some knowledge sharing sessions there.
The Javascript section is a few things simple things I have written where I could not find what I wanted on the web six or seven years back, although maybe similar search now may be more productive.
Les Smith
December 2007