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Re:LGP-30 found in basement, the same model of drum computer... by maxbond on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:37PM (#33515310)
I have a small ambition to write an LGP-30 emulator & to run Mel's poker code; sadly, in my poking around, while there's a tiny amount of Mel Kaye-authored source code archived[1] (in the form of scans of hand-written documents that appear to be the equivalent of pull requests, with one engineer writing them and another signing off on reviewing it) it's not very useful & is not from the poker program.

It'd be amazing for that program is on this computer and someone can pull it off, but I imagine the magnetic drum memory would've decayed into noise by now.

[1] Eg https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_royalPreciTable8Nov195...

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Re:LGP-30 found in basement, the same model of drum computer... by kps on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:47PM (#33515367)
Simh supports the LGP-30.

University of Stuttgart has copies of quite a few LGP-30 paper tapes, including Mel Kaye's blackjack. ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/lgp30/ [edited link]

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Re:LGP-30 found in basement, the same model of drum computer... by maxbond on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:54PM (#33515404)
Frick yeah! That link 404s but and I don't speak German, but I'll look into it; thanks for the lead.

ETA: As some of you might have guessed, it in fact is not 404, it's just accessible over FTP and not HTTP. It appears to be mirrored over here: https://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/...

ETA2: For anyone who's interested, I had better luck with the Python ftplib than a command line client; despite following their instructions to use a - in the password, my command line client still froze up.

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Re:LGP-30 found in basement, the same model of drum computer... by neurostimulant on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:33PM (#33515887)
Even the http mirror only allows to browse, not download. Please consider uploading the files to Internet Archive so other people can have easier access.
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