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Has anyone been able to locate the "full" MUSIC distribution files which include the programming languages etc.?

Are there any contacts from McGill University or other sites, that are still able to assist?

Cordially

Patrick

Has anyone been able to locate the "full" MUSIC distribution files which
include the programming languages etc.?

I haven't seen one since I had it on real hardware in the 1990s.

I believe there may have been problems distributing most of the langauges on
the demo system because they were produced by IBM, not by McGill.

Are there any contacts from McGill University or other sites, that are
still able to assist?

Dave Edwards from McGill used to engage a lot with the community but he
died sevaral years ago and there has been very little activity since.
There was a statement of intent made to continue developing the demo
system in Dave's absence but nothing much came of it unfortunately.

I have tried to keep in touch with one or two of the ex-McGill people
but I haven't been able to make contact with anyone in years now.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.

My understanding was McGill would not release the full set of files. Dave Edwards had to drop a lot of the files out of his distro so McGill would allow to release a 'demo'.

I'm not sure what would happen IF someone still had a set of tapes somewhere and transferred that to a new medium.

I asked my place of employment where we ran music if they had any tapes at all. We had quite a bit of administrative office programming and a few system source file mods. I'd have loved to have the full source to put our mods back in, the source for what we wrote as admin apps, and obfuscate the data to have as a display of what we had in those days.

My source changes involved using an internal chat queue that would send a 'command' from one program to another, then 'auto-switch' sessions to the 'other' program. So for example, a person could be looking at a prospect's data, hit a function key. If the app data program wasn't running, start it. If it was then send the name to look up in the applicant program, and switch sessions to the applicant program.

Another thing I wrote was a special log in stack that accepted creds from a vb program. It then would accept commands from the vb gui and do interactive degree audits. Show a student or advisor, for a given major, what courses were needed, what were optional, when they were going to be taught again, and check the requirements for that major that were completed.

I wanted to have an auto-enrollment feature, but the registrar told me no. Said he had to keep his job security ;)

But, yeah...having all that resurrected as a historical record of the times would have been great...no luck though. No tapes remained...

the last (incomplete) version can be got here.?https://geronimo370.nl/vm6pext/music-sp-6-2/

They have all the service pack installed. plus vsam, c, pli(f), fortran IV, scientific pakcage..

You can run them standalone in Sim390, hercules as a standalone? or as a virtual machine in vm.

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Carlos

Argentina