SAC-1 Availability Notice
date: label: date made
content: ca 1974
name: label: Associated Name
content: Riley, Robert F.
label: maker
content: University of Wisconsin. Computer Sciences Department
notes: label: Description
content: Attempts to use computers to manipulate symbols as well as numbers date from the mid-1950s, with programs first published in the mid-1960s. George E. Collins (1928-2017), a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, introduced the program PM (Polynomial Manipulation) in 1966 and a system of Fortran programs known as SAC-1 (Symbolic and Algebraic Calculation) beginning in 1967. The topologist Robert F. Riley (1935-2000) of Binghamton University in New York used this documentation for a later version of SAC-1 in his studies of the polynomials associated with knots and links.
label: Description
content: More specifically, this undated set of typed sheets give information about formats in shich the SAC-1 system was available on magnetic tape (BCD, EBCDIC, and ASCII), and the cost of such tapes ($20.00 domestically, $25.00 for foreign airmail). It also listed severl instructive documents, dated 1970-1974, which were availble at a cost of two cents a page and had a total length of about 1000 pages.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Madison
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert F. Riley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.3057.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3057
label: catalog number
content: 1999.3057.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 21.7 cm; 11 1/32 in x 8 17/32 in