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I talk about his "Series L" tables here and link to scans of them: https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/lovelaces-pro...

Here's a blog series where I get her program running on a modern computer using a simple transliteration to C: https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/

Here's my Mandelbrot set generator written in the table language Ada Lovelace wrote her 1843 program for Babbage's Analytical Engine: https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/

The trickiest part was figuring out how to exploit fixed-point underflow to do the equivalent of if(a>4.0) when the only conditional I could use was if(a==0), using arithmetic operations to force underflow for all a>4.0

I like reading the original paper in it's original format, but here is searchable text version: https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist/48eniac-coding/index...

A 1948 report on the conversion of ENIAC from being programmed by a complex wiring of cables and setting switches to the more modern stored program. The writing is accessible, but the introduction and section on test programs are probably most interesting.

How hard is it to print to pdf on a PC/laptop and transfer to the remarkable? I used to do that on my ancient Kindle DX, which I remember being a bit clunky, but not too bad with wireless sync. It was nice avoiding stacks and stacks of paper.

Alam Turing used the "hoot" instruction on the Manchester computer in the 1940s to signal different things for debugging https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37507707