The GE-115 Project

It is time to think about the next steps in this project. There are several elements, and I don't have a good sense today of what things are most important. So the topics below are in no particular order. It would wonderful to digitize the thousands of punched cards that are in the library at Ingenium (The Museum of Science and Technology). This would require taking some kind of machine (a card reader or a scanner or something else) to the museum, and then sitting with the many decks of cards, digitizing and cataloguing them. Given the number of cards, this would be a long process, at least a few days, and with the current state of my digitizer software, probably much longer. However, this would unleash a great deal of data, including load files (which would then have to be reverse engineered), program files that could be run through the simulator, and operating system command examples. If anybody has a functioning card reader out there, please let me know!! It would also be very v...

 I have been able to get a few things accomplished, as I am now retired! I was able to scan and digitize all of the cards that Chris Atkinson sent me. There was so much information in these cards. It had Fortran programs which showed me language features that I had forgotten to include in the simulator. It had COBOL programs, APS programs and even some Spectre Map (a local language to simulate assembly language on a virtual machine). It took a while to get the information digitized from the cards, so if anyone has any ideas about how to do that faster, please let me know. I thought these were the only vintage GE-115 cards left on the planet. Until today. I was unable to locate the systems disk at Eastview. The staff were kind enough to look for me, but to no avail. I got another lead from Steve McNie, who had seen a display at the 50th anniversary reunion. There are as display on a wooden frame which had a large deck of cards which was the program used to create bingo cards for fun...