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Suggestions are invited for a museum to which I can donate an early 3600:
1st in Europe, 13th ever made, (oldest surviving?), working order, spares, documentation
It deserves a home where future generations can see how quantum leaps were
made.
Where machines came from
Racal Expert Systems, Racal Recca Advanced Development, Redac,
Pangaro Ltd, ASL, Plessey, British Telecom, ATTA, Open University, DERA,
Symbolics Ltd, ...
List of users of my Lisp machines:
- Peter Paine
- Paul Pangaro (ThoughtSticker)
- Colin Sheppard (visionary, psychology)
- Guy Footring (software engineering)
- Peter Richards (petrophysics, software engineering)
- Surendra Mayaramani (AI, CAD)
- David Humphrey (open hole log interpretation)
- Greg Reeve-Smith (geology, Schmidt Net)
- Bernard Kelly (Montecarlo simulation)
- Andy Evans (games graphics)
- Diana Paine (training)
- Kent Pitman (telephone network diagnostics)
- Phil Greenspun
- Kieth Milk (ARC)
- Helen Campbell (G-ARC, avatars)
- Dik Gregory (ThoughSticker)
- Mark Hiser (3D graphics)
- Chris Theobold (simulation)
- Malcolm West
- St.Clair Cordice (requirements capture)
- Robert Walden (requirements capture)
- AliciaMae Hedren (Vittal)
- Chris Young (requirements capture)
- Peter Duxbury-Smith (natural language and AI)
- Karen Elder (tapestry stitching)
- Marc Eisenstat
- Martin Brooks
- John Butler (telecoms)
- John Daniel
- Graham Mateison
- Bob Irving (naval)
- Alan Roth
- June Taylor (accounting)
People who have been in and around Lisp here:
- John Gay (computer hardware)
- Peter Arnold (museum founder and potter)
- Alan Jones (computer hardware)
- Jacques-Elie Chabert (games, lenticulars, La Locale TV)
- Russel Noftsker (daft business)
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List of Lisp applications I've written or been heavily involved with:
- ZetaScope (multidimensional modeler)
- Sawdust (music authoring via color graphical GUI)
- ARC and G-ARC (automatic requirements capture - knowledge representation)
- Kettle (power plant simulation)
- Know (W3 data visualization)
- LIFF (petrophysical log analysis)
- ThoughtSticker (Conversation Theory put into practice)
- Darn (tapestry design)
- Roget (lateral searching tool)
- FlyPAST (flight scheduling)
- Ash (genealogy)
- JIN (GUI builder)
- Sheet (text analysis tabular interface)
- Arecibo (text, html, ... searching UI and DB)
- Tess (raw digital image de-mosaicing and interpolation)
- ImageClip (image DAM (digital asset management))
- TimeInsight (history representation and exploration)
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Other lisp projects:
- Racal-Norsk KPS lisp machine
- Museum artifact photography and DB archive
- Hop (beer taste) drying trainer
- Disaster preparedness
- Know (knowledge representation system by Grasp)
- Camera tracking and control
- Barbed Wire (the game, motion capture)