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50 Years of APL – Photo Gallery

If you have a photograph/paper that we can publish or a story from the first 50 years of APL, please email contact@dyalog.com; we’ll collect the stories and photographs on these pages for you to enjoy during the next 50 years! Contributions can be anonymous if preferred (please include this request when emailing us).
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Early APL developers, from left to right: Dick Lathwell, Ken Iverson, Roger Moore, Adin Falkoff, Phil Abrams, Larry Breed. Taken in the I.P. Sharp Associates hospitality suite during the 1978 APL User Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
Ken Iverson and Arthur Witney
"Two of my favourites from the STSC fold-out brochure circa 1971" - Rex Swain
"Two of my favourites from the STSC fold-out brochure circa 1971" - Rex Swain
"Two of my favourites from the STSC fold-out brochure circa 1971" - Rex Swain
"STSC APL*PLUS 80 for the Radio Shack TRS-80, floppy disk and reference card. Circa 1982." - Bill Lewis
"Poster made to celebrate the release of STSC's APL*Plus product that supported Nested Arrays" - Bob Smith
"Scientific Time Sharing Corporation's co-founder (with Dan Dyer) was Pat Gehl, V.P. of Marketing (and Sales – they were not distinguished at the time). Pat was missing from the previous photograph (MCP), but here is pictured in California with his wife Patsy and a few other STSCers" - Roy Sykes
"Scientific Time Sharing Corporation's Management Committee circa 1975, from left to right: Al Rose, Larry Breed, Phil Abrams (front), Martin Gardner (rear), Roy Sykes, Dan Dyer, Bob Smith, Ed Garner, Bob Fick (missing: Pat Gehl)" - Roy Sykes
Bob Bernecky, 1987
"Nostalgic greatness! A 'clicky' spring beam IBM 3278 keyboard of the 70s" - David Ayre
"Sales page from my first cassette tape APL-80" - David Ayre
IBM Selectric APL golfball
Jigsaw from APL85 conference in Seattle
IBM 5100 portable computer.
Ken Iverson
Ken Iverson
Ken Iverson
"Bill Lewis (seated) and Bill Rutiser (standing) taken at STSC in November 1983" - Bill Lewis
Ken Iverson
CPU, computer operator's console and peripherals of an IBM System/360 Model 50 in use at Volkswagen in the 1970s
Minnowbrook, 1980
An APL Typeball

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