However, you usually think of Forth as something running on a little computer such as an 8-bit microcomputer. When [Chuck Moore] developed the system back in the 1960s though, it ran on an IBM 1130.

My first job after graduate school was teaching mathematics at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. The college was one of the so-called “Seven Sisters,” where young ladies were sent to earn ...

The APL language processor emulated one for the existing, much larger, IBM 1130 computer. The SCAMP is designed to be a portable and folds into a suitcase-like frame. The upper part, including the ...

Over the past 25 years the cost of hardware has fallen dramatically. The IBM 1130 computer, bought by half a dozen British market research companies in the late sixties and early seventies, cost ...