Stanford CS TR collection at Bitsavers

[Paolo Amoroso]

Bitsavers has just uploaded a collection of dozens of scans of Stanford CS technical reports at https://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/Stanford_CS_TR_Collection_2025-12-12 Is there anything of potential interest for Interlisp?

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[Paolo Amoroso]

I'm going through the collection and found this so far: Interlisp-VAX: A Report by one Larry M. Masintcr (sic). Donald Knuth was quite active at Stanford back then, by the way.

[Paolo Amoroso]

This is also relevant: GUIDON-WATCH: A Graphic Interface for Viewing A Knowledge-Based System.

[Paul McJones]

For that specific report, I had links to other copies here:

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/interlisp_family.html#INTERLISP-VAX_

Paul

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[Matt Heffron]

Paul,

It’s interesting that they’re missing STAN-CS-81-885, “The Emycin Manual”.

It turns out that I have a paper copy which I have scanned as “Searchable PDF” (i.e., embedded OCR).

Would this be of interest?

It’s cited in our Bibliography, but not linked to, as we haven’t defined a reliable home for things we’ve scanned ourselves.

 

Matt Heffron

 

P.S. I believe that I still have the DECUS LISP for the PDP-8 as a PAPER TAPE! I’ll look for it.

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[Paul McJones]

Matt,

Your scan of STAN-CS-81-885 would be greatly appreciated by these two people:

1. Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org>, who would add it to the collection at bitsavers.org .

2. Nelson Beebe <be...@math.utah.edu>, who maintains a huge set of bibliographies in BibTex format and who recently conducted an intensive search for good scanned copies of Stanford reports (that’s where Al got the ones recently added to bitsavers). Nelson’s Stanford CS bibliography is here: https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/stanford-cstr.pdf and it contains this entry:

vanMelle:1981:EM

[902] William James van Melle, A. C. Scott, J. S. Bennett, and M. Peairs.

The EMYCIN manual. Technical Report STAN-CS-81-885 (HPP-81-

16), Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, Stanford,

CA, USA, October 1981. iii + 138 pp.

Paul

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[Paolo Amoroso]

Searching for material on GUIDON-WATCH I came across the introduction of the November, 1985 special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications: Computer Graphics

and Expert Systems. The introduction refers to an article in the issue on GUIDON-WATCH which seems interesting as it has an angle on graphics.

Although the introduction doesn't mention the title or authors the article is most likely Guidon-Watch: A Graphic Interface for Viewing a Knowledge-Based System. However, the text is behind a paywall.

[Herb Jellinek]

We can certainly create an item for this in our Zotero even without a copy of it.

Where in our Zotero collections would it go - "mentions/discusses interlisp"?

            Herb

[Paolo Amoroso]

It could go in the collection "About applications written in Interlisp" or "mentions/discusses Interlisp". I think the first one may be more relevant but either is appropriate.

[Herb Jellinek]

Yes, I keep forgetting that "About applications written in Interlisp" contains documents about more applications that the ones named in its sub-collections.

            Herb