• VintageScientificComputing

Vintage Scientific Computing

I'm using this page to track pages related to the intersection of two of my interests: scientific computing and retrocomputing. Together, these interests make a pretty niche topic

MATLAB

Here are some posts on the history of MATLAB from the official MathWorks blog:

• Wilkinson and Reinsch Handbook on Linear Algebra

• LINPACK, Linear Equation Package

• EISPACK, Matrix Eigensystem Routines

• MATLAB History, PC-MATLAB Version 1.0

• Modern MATLAB, part 1

• Modern MATLAB, part 2

• The MATLAB Technical Computing Environment

• MultiMATLAB - Interesting for the large number of MATLAB to C compilers it cites.

SAS

• SAS Institute/FDA Intellectual Partnership for Efficient Regulated Research Data Archival and Analyses

• Selection from "Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S."

• SAS grows from an on-campus project to an independent company (oral history)

• Anthony Barr's SAS History

• SAS: A hard-to-define product but simple success

SPSS

• The introduction to SPSS: statistical package for the social sciences (ISBN: 0070465312) has a lot of historical context for the development of SPSS

• History of SPSS

Retrocomputing ScientificComputing