The Virtual Keypunch is a web-based service that allows users to create and download personal punch cards in various formats. It mimics the classic IBM 029 keypunch cards, supporting character sets for Standard, FORTRAN, COBOL, DATA, SYMBOLIC, and PYTHON cards. The service includes features like multiple punching, binary input modes, and the ability to generate links with embedded text.
There are references to the IBM 7090/7094 version under IBSYS online. In this 7094 emulator package on Github: https://github.com/Bertoid1311/B7094 (in the zipped distribution files unfortunately) I think there is a copy that is runnable? see: Docs/Bamberger-MAMOS_docs/BAMBSYSLB1_patch_for_IPLV.txt
It describes patching the available binary to make it work, with the caveat that it's unclear if the interpreter is correct/intact (but it does run the demo programs).
On the provenance of the tape:https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/umes-resurrected-sort-of/3739
https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/Computer_Structures__Readings_and_Examples/contents.html
Proc. WJCC, pp. 119-128, 1958. Chapter 30 A command structure for complex information processing1
J. C. Shaw / A. Newell / H. A. Simon / T. O. Ellis The general-purpose digital computer, by virtue of its large capacity and general-purpose nature, has opened the possibility of research into the nature of complex mechanisms per se. The challenge is obvious: humans carry out information processing of a complexity that is truly baffling. Given the urge to understand either how humans do it, or alternatively, what kinds of mechanisms might accomplish the same tasks, the computer is turned to as a basic research tool. The varieties of complex information processing will be understood when they can be synthesized: when mechanisms can be created that perform the same processes.
"Shaw et al. (Ref. 1) have described a possible hardwar e computer, called IPL-VI, which showed the important features such a machine should have for its IPL-V instructions, but the input/output and arithmeti c instructions ar e not considered. However, with the arriva l of the presentday module concept of arithmeti c computer organization, a new possibility arise s for the construction of an IPL-V hardwar e machine. To convert an arithmetica l computer into an IPL-V system, it could be provided with a second processo r which operate s with certain basic IPL-V "J" processe s as its instruction set. The second processo r would require direc t access to memory for its data and instructions in orde r to be able to operate at as fast a speed as the memor y would allow. The instruction set of the sec - ond processo r should be all the basic list operations. The remaining list operations could be built up as routines from these basic operations. All the arithmeti c and input/output processe s would be performed in the original arithmeti c processor, with the List Processo r taking car e of any necessary list "bookkeeping." The necessary data and addresse s would be communicated between the two processors by prelegislation of memory locations where the processors would find the relevant information when requested to perform an operation. Thus, there would have to be some means of transferring control back and forth between the two processors, presumably some form of interrupt system"
"An IPL- hardware processor, Engine No. 2, has been added to the CDC-3600, thereby converting the system into the IPL-VC, an IPL- hardware computer. This paper presents a discussion of the completed system."
How to use IPLV on an IBM 704
Information Processing Language (IPL) is a programming language created by Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Herbert A. Simon at RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1956. IPL introduced concepts like list processing, dynamic memory allocation, recursion, and cooperative multitasking. It was an assembly language for manipulating lists and influenced several early AI programs. However, it was soon replaced by Lisp due to its more powerful features and simpler syntax.
