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1. Implement paper-tape/TTY versions of compiler INPUTMEDIA and OUTPUTMEDIA routines, and the run-time REED and RITE routines. 2. Create Generator callout deck to make a compiler tape containing paper-tape/TTY support. 3. Create a compiler tape containing paper-tape/TTY support. 4. Create a paper-tape compiler callout bootstrap program. 5. Correct address for NUMB in Generator source to match the address in the compiler's Overlay module. 6. Create corrected Generator tape (must be used to create compilers with paper-tape/TTY support). 7. Add option to produce Generator INPUTMEDIA/OUTPUTMEDIA object card decks to BAC-Assembler and GEN-Assembler. 8. Create Xlate-Card-PT.wsf utility to convert card-image files to retro-220 paper-tape image files. 9. Create paper-tape versions of example BALGOL programs.
The Burroughs 220 was a late-1950s, decimal, vacuum-tube, core-memory computer system. Some consider it to be the last of the major vacuum-tube computers.
The 220 was the follow-on product to the ElectroData/Burroughs Datatron 205. It was initially developed as the ElectroData Datatron 220 but renamed after Burroughs acquired ElectroData in 1956. The system was initially released in 1958. It did well with both scientific and commercial applications, but being a vacuum-tube system at the beginning of the transistorized era, was only modestly successful.
The ElectroData Division of Burroughs went on to create a number of successful systems after the 220, including the B100/200/300 series, the B1700/1800/1900 series, the B2000/3000/4000/V Series, the B5000/5500, and finally the B6000/7000/A Series, which are still produced and sold today as Unisys ClearPath MCP systems.
The main goal of this project is creation of a web browser-based emulator for the 220.
A second goal is reconstruction of the Burroughs Algebraic Compiler (BALGOL), an Algol-58 compiler written for the 220 by a team from Burroughs that included Joel Erdwinn, Jack Merner, Donald Knuth, Dave Dahm, and Clark Oliphint.
The contents of this project are licensed under the MIT License.
| Related Sites | URL |
|---|---|
| Emulator hosting site | http://www.phkimpel.us/Burroughs-220/ |
| Emulator documentation | https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-220/wiki |
| Burroughs 205/220 blog | http://datatron.blogspot.com |
| 220 documents at bitsavers | http://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/electrodata/220/ |
| BALGOL compiler listing | http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_X4100/PDF_index/k-1-pdf/k-1-u2196-balgol220compiler.pdf |
| Datatron 205 site | http://www.phkimpel.us/ElectroData-205/ |