Monthly Archives: October 2011

And another computer science great leaves us

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

John McCarthy, creator of Lisp died recently. Those that wrote chess programs, like William Bader (one of SCS’s senior programmers), and me, knew his work well. http://linkd.in/svpqAC We’ve used things we learned from chess programming to create SCS/ClassPag™ for (newspaper classified pagination). Chess programming … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about Steve Jobs and SCS

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

SCS became an official Apple developer in 1977. SCS bought an Apple II+ from the just-opened Lehigh Valley Computerland. (I believe SCS was their first Apple sale, or very nearly so.) SCS had a contract with American Express to make … Continue reading →

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