Ask HN: What is the oldest computer that you still use for production?

Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest computer that you still use fo... by jlees on Friday September 03, 2010 @05:12PM (#1661183)

On an internship with the UK defense research agency my job involved the conversion of some ALGOL-68 simulation code into Java. I would be very surprised if the professor for whom I worked was not still hacking away at the ALGOL. No idea how old the machine he used was, but it would be quite happy in a museum...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest computer that you still use fo... by NevilleDNZ on Saturday September 04, 2010 @05:53PM (#1663476)

The UK Defence Research Agency also produced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten15 - Ten15 served as an intermediate language for various compilers, but with several unique features, some of which have still to see the light of day in everyday systems.

UK Defence Research Agency's ALGOL 68RS (algol68toc) is available from sourceforge, It now generates C.

The interpreter Algol68G is also available, is easier to use, and a list snippets can be found at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/User:NevilleDNZ

To download Linux's Algol68 Compiler & Interpreter: * http://sourceforge.net/projects/algol68

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Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest computer that you still use fo... by jacquesm on Friday September 03, 2010 @05:23PM (#1661207)

I think you hold the record so far!

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