Talk:Odra (computer)

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If the penultimate one shut down in 2003, where is the last one now? is it still operating?

or was "penultimate" misused?

maybe some digital photograph might exist? Anyone got one?

http://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic1167261.html link to thread (in polish) from 2008 (still active as of Mar 2010) asking for help with restoring penultimate odra 1305 (shut down in 2003 and slightly damaged by 5yrs of improper storage). Lots of links to images, films, documentation, names of people involved in Odra development and maintenance, etc. Most of them on picasa/YT so I'm not linking to them from main article. It's in museum of industry and railway in Jaworzyna Śląska since 2008. Many modules were successfully booted, but some are still inoperative, and they what they lack most is software.

BTW, last Odra (also 1305 model) on railway station is believed to be shut down on 2010-01-07 or 08 (according to pl wiki, but no ref), yet some claim it's still working as of Mar2010 Agent L (talk) 11:19, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

one is still operational[edit]

re: "at least one is still operational and maintained by students of electrical school which created a fan club around the machine".

Can someone post me details of this fan club. In particular I am interested in getting copies of a VM and/or the ODRA ALGOL 68 implementation.

ThanX NevilleDNZ (talk)

Youtube has a videos of an operational Odra:

Only working computer Odra in Poland (in polish)

NevilleDNZ (talk) 21:10, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Neville, I think that's an ODRA 1305, i.e. an ICL 1900. The ALGOL 68 for that machine is ALGOL 68R, I guess you already have a copy of that. HughesJohn (talk) 11:01, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And re-reading the reference the Leningrad compiler was written for an IBM 360. They started by writing the syntax analysis in the ODRA 1204, but code was generated by and for the 360, The whole thing was then rewritten in ALGOL 68 and ran on the 360. HughesJohn (talk) 12:24, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]