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(Created page with "'''Allen J. Rose''' was an APL educator at IBM, and later a co-founder and vice president of STSC. He was the 1988 recipient of the Iverson Award. Rose was noted for his ability to demonstrate APL using an wikipedia:IBM 2741 terminal, including in a verse of APL Blossom Time which descibes it as "an old, bent, beat-up 2741". The terminal weighed 120 pounds and had been distributed into two custom suitcases for portability.<ref>Jacob Brickmann. [http...") |
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Rose was noted for his ability to demonstrate APL using an [[wikipedia:IBM 2741|IBM 2741]] terminal, including in a verse of [[APL Blossom Time]] which descibes it as "an old, bent, beat-up 2741". The terminal weighed 120 pounds and had been distributed into two custom suitcases for portability.<ref>Jacob Brickmann. [https://britishaplassociation.org/2017-apl-implementers-workshop-minnowbrook/ 2017 APL Implementers Workshop, Minnowbrook]. 2018-02-10.</ref><ref>[[Roger Hui]]. Ken Iverson Quotations and Anecdotes, [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/KEIQA.htm#Skyliner "Skyliner"] quoting [[Roger Moore]]. 2005-09-30.</ref> It connected to an [[APL\360]] installation by phone line, but when Rose was unable to connect he used a cassette tape recorded from the terminal's acoustic coupler to play back an earlier demo.<ref>Jim Brown. [https://old.aplwiki.com/OnAPLsHistory?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=JimBrownsPersonalHistoryOf_APL_20170405.pdf A Personal History of APL]. Updated 2017-04-05.</ref> | Rose was noted for his ability to demonstrate APL using an [[wikipedia:IBM 2741|IBM 2741]] terminal, including in a verse of [[APL Blossom Time]] which descibes it as "an old, bent, beat-up 2741". The terminal weighed 120 pounds and had been distributed into two custom suitcases for portability.<ref>Jacob Brickmann. [https://britishaplassociation.org/2017-apl-implementers-workshop-minnowbrook/ 2017 APL Implementers Workshop, Minnowbrook]. 2018-02-10.</ref><ref>[[Roger Hui]]. Ken Iverson Quotations and Anecdotes, [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/KEIQA.htm#Skyliner "Skyliner"] quoting [[Roger Moore]]. 2005-09-30.</ref> It connected to an [[APL\360]] installation by phone line, but when Rose was unable to connect he used a cassette tape recorded from the terminal's acoustic coupler to play back an earlier demo.<ref>Jim Brown. [https://old.aplwiki.com/OnAPLsHistory?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=JimBrownsPersonalHistoryOf_APL_20170405.pdf A Personal History of APL]. Updated 2017-04-05.</ref> | ||
While employed at STSC, Rose demonstrated the shared filesystem implemented by [[IPSA]]'s [[Larry Breed]] and [[Eric Iverson]] at [[APL70]]. | While employed at STSC, Rose demonstrated the shared filesystem implemented by [[IPSA]]'s [[Larry Breed]] and [[Eric Iverson]] at [[APL70]].<ref>Korn, Karl. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/987429.987434 "APL Community Meets at NASA"]. [[APL Quote-Quad]] Vol. 2, No. 2. 1970-07-10.</ref> | ||
{{quote|Al Rose was one of the best stage acts I can remember. I attended a gig of his somewhere in London in the early ’70s. Al had an IBM golf-ball APL terminal. As a finale, he said, “I have The Book of Psalms here — what do you want to know?” There was a long pause, until someone in the audience asked, “Which word occurs most often?” | {{quote|Al Rose was one of the best stage acts I can remember. I attended a gig of his somewhere in London in the early ’70s. Al had an IBM golf-ball APL terminal. As a finale, he said, “I have The Book of Psalms here — what do you want to know?” There was a long pause, until someone in the audience asked, “Which word occurs most often?” | ||