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.

He fed all the information into a National Cash Register 315 computer. After proper programming, the machine was ready to spew out a blow-by-blow account of a mythical fight.

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.

So we had the money. Next came the computer. IBM had unveiled the 1130 in early 1965; it was “the first IBM computer to rent for less than $1,000 a month.” I spoke with several vendors, but ...

If you want the classic experience of working with an IBM mainframe or another classic computer like a DEC VAX, you have a few choices. You could spend a lot of money trying to find one, transport … ...

Grady Booch, co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.

The film stars two computers: Elliott 803 (in the Department of Nuclear Physics, the University of Helsinki) and IBM 1130 (in the computer centre at the University of Turku). At times, 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 ...