10 Jul
2019
10 Jul
'19
8:34 p.m.
Nelson. Good question. The status is unknown last I knew. I’ve personally lost track of
anyone at Tek that might have able to help.
Also your version seems to be pure FORTRAN-IV not the mortran sources. Part of my
question is I’m not sure if they shipped the pre or post processed version. Somebody like
Ed Post (of the old “Real Programmers don’t write Pascal, they use FORTRAN”) might
remember.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Jul 10, 2019, at 5:51 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe
<beebe(a)math.utah.edu> wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> asks on Tue, 9 Jul 2019 21:32:31 -0400:
> does anyone know if any version of the
Tektronix Plot 10 sources has survived?
In our PDP-10 TOPS-20 archive of what was then utah-science, later
science.utah.edu (a domain now owned by our Dean's office), I find
these files:
% ls -log
total 3768
-rw-rw-r-- 1 145899 May 16 1985 agii.for
-rw-rw-r-- 1 245190 May 16 1985 ezgr27.for
-rw-rw-r-- 1 2132822 May 16 1985 igl.for
-rw-rw-r-- 1 289730 May 16 1985 p4663.for
-rw-rw-r-- 1 129276 May 16 1985 p4663.ver
-rw-rw-r-- 1 149038 May 16 1985 ploter.for
-rw-rw-r-- 1 210033 May 16 1985 plt10.for
-rw-rw-r-- 1 470 May 16 1985 plt10t.for
% wc -l *
1815 agii.for
7251 ezgr27.for
26011 igl.for
3577 p4663.for
1596 p4663.ver
1845 ploter.for
2763 plt10.for
27 plt10t.for
44885 total
% head -16 agii.for
C***********************************************************************00000010
C* *00000020
C* 4010A02 PLOT 10 ADVANCED GRAPHING II *00000030
C* LEVEL 1 *00000040
C* *00000050
C* 062-2948-01 STD. SOURCE CARD DECK, 026 PUNCH *00000060
C* 062-2949-01 STD. SOURCE LISTING *00000070
C* *00000080
C* C COPYRIGHT 1976 TEKTRONIX, INC. *00000090
C* ALL RIGHTS RESERVED *00000100
C* *00000110
C* TEKTRONIX, INC. *00000120
C* P. O. BOX 500 *00000130
C* BEAVERTON, OREGON 97077 *00000140
C* *00000150
C***********************************************************************00000160
The Bitsavers code at
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/Tektronix/PLOT_10/TCS_3.0/plot10.ftn
has a 1974 copyright date, so our code is two years newer.
The question is, what is the copyright status of this code? Has
Tektronix (https://www.tek.com/) made any statements about releasing
it to the public?
I no longer remember the conditions under which we got the PLOT 10
code, and any licensing paperwork has long since gone to recycling.
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