was written in assembly language for the Lincoln Labs TX-2. Ivan has been asked by many people for the code and as far as I know he has never released it.

Here is a different perspective, posted today by the Computer History Museum. http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/preservation-conservation-restoration-whats-the-difference/

You and everyone else. That is why almost none of these machines still exist.

thanks to www.bitsavers.org, NOT LCM (who uses bitsavers a LOT)

It was originally called HerdStar.

By Northhouse Associates / Compco in Milwaukee, circa 1978?
Lots of ex UW-Milwaukee CS friends worked there.

OSF1 and DCE would be of more interest than CDE/Motif at this point.

Look at the title of books and documentation from the period when they were in use. They
ALWAYS refer to them as PUNCHED cards.

Pastel was an extended Pascal compiler developed by LLNL for the S-1 supercomputer project
http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/s1.html

It, and several other significant pieces of software, including the SCALD hardware design language
were made freely available by LLNL. I have one version of the compiler, which was donated to the
Computer History Museum by one of its authors. I have been looking for the other pieces since the
late 80's.

If you look at the GNU Manifesto, RMS was also looking at using the MIT Trix kernel in the early days
of the project.

What system did you end up going with?

How do you back it up?

If you're in the SF Bay Area. If you aren't, take a look at the online exhibit to see how
computing history can be made approachable to people unfamiliar with the field.

"I was under the impression that they had been given tot the Computer History Museum."

I've tried to find out what happened to them, without luck. Hopefully someone in facilities knew what they were and hid them somewhere.
The prototypes in the lobby disappeared several years after the Apple Library was given away.

"when he became CEO of Apple in 1997, not only did he kill off a number of product lines and projects, he also donated Apple's large collection of historic products to the Computer History Museum."

He did no such thing.
The contents of the Apple Library was given to Stanford University. The IL4 second floor was then taken over by Ive's group.
With the exception of permission to release the MacPaint sources, CHM has never received anything from Apple, Inc.

The small exhibit of Apple products, including the Apple II prototype, disappeared from the IL4 internal lobby one day after Jobs
was rumored to have said "get this shit out of here".