historical-computing

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lwsinclair / spreadsheet-fortran

What if the first spreadsheet had been written in FORTRAN? A counterfactual 1978 spreadsheet for PDP-11 minicomputers, written in authentic FORTRAN IV.

fortran spreadsheet pdp-11 simh retro-computing minicomputer visicalc fortran-66 rsx-11m historical-computing

Updated Jan 30, 2026
Fortran

Screendead / comtran-compiler

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A compiler for COMTRAN (IBM Commercial Translator, 1959-1962), the pre-COBOL business language, recovered from its two surviving manuals and rebuilt from that recovery.

dart compiler cobol retrocomputing digital-preservation comtran punched-cards historical-computing ibm-7090 programming-language-history commercial-translator

Updated Aug 11, 2026
Dart

nyxcraft / pdp11-xdev

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Multi-universe PDP-11 cross-development toolchain (Ritchie cc, as, ld, binutils, das, s5fs, apsim user-mode simulator) spanning First Edition through 2.11BSD

emulator toolchain unix simulator compiler assembler bsd retrocomputing cross-compiler pdp11 pdp-11 2bsd historical-computing a-out ritchie-c

Updated Aug 7, 2026
C

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