A very interesting book; I have already read some parts, and also implemented a few things: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Algol60.
The Algol 60 language report appeared in May 1960, so exactly sixty years ago.
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And ESPOL/NEWP were one of the first dialects used for systems programming, 10 years before C was born, still being sold by Unisys.
As a reminder, we are still looking for complete distributions of the Burroughs B6700 MCP releases that include ESPOL/NEWP so we can complete an emulator and preserve this system into the future.
No chance getting collaboration out of Unisys?
We received some files from Release II.1 (early 1972) but it is missing significant components. After that time we have bits and pieces but nothing complete. We remain hopeful that someone has a distribution tape from the 1970s and we would expect that to have all the needed components.
Unisys has helped but not unexpectedly the machines we are targeting were end-of-life in the late 1970s and so they did not keep software for them beyond that time.