From: derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk   
      
   All,   
      
   I looking for manuals for languages from the 1950s,   
   the earlier the better.   
      
   There were lots of languages around (we just don't know much   
   about them today):   
   http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/05/21/evidence-f   
   r-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/   
      
   --   
   Derek M. Jones   
   blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com   
   [I presume you've looked through bitsavers. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)