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    The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision, is an early off-the-shelf computer. It was manufactured by the...
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    machine. The LGP-30 was an off-the-shelf vacuum-tube computer manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California. The LGP-30 was first manufactured...
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  • "bulk of the programming" on the 1959 ACT-1 compiler for the Royal McBee LGP-30 computer. In Nather's story, Kaye is portrayed as being prone to avoiding...
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  • uppercase letters K, S, N, J, F and L for the values 10 to 15. The Librascope LGP-30 (1956) used the letters F, G, J, K, Q and W for the values 10 to 15. On...
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  • Librascope General Precision (LGP-30) desk-size computer acquired by Dartmouth College in 1959. Since the limited size of the LGP-30 (4K 31-bit words) precluded...
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  • and soon abandoned. It was also implemented at Dartmouth College on an LGP-30, but that implementation soon evolved into ALGOL 60. An implementation for...
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    antics: Mel Kaye. Librascope LGP-30: The drum memory computer referenced in the above story, also referenced on Librascope LGP-30. Librascope RPC-4000: Another...
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    a Manhattan Project veteran and early ENIAC programmer, to design the LGP-30 desk computer in 1956. In 1964 Librascope's Avionic Equipment Division at...
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    17–18, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. p. 124. ISBN 9783642416507. LGP 30, technikum 29: Living Museum Pegasus at the V&A, Computer Conservation Society...
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    particular, there was an entire class of drum machines, like the UNIVAC 1101 and LGP-30, that share some features of the minicomputer class. Similar models using...
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