The widebody-microcode-development process, circa 1977, building 705, first floor, Poughkeepsie, New York.

A model of computing in the UNIX workstation era.

The origin story of the IBM System/360 general registers.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

All 999 of these sequels take full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

The 2,352 separate and distinct brain-teasers forming each volume - and the total of 2,349,648 specimens of this riddle subspecies which have been collected for your enjoyment and vocabulary development within the entire 999-book Quintessential Puzzles assemblage - are perfect examples of no-frills word-puzzles.

As the fictional Los Angeles police sergeant Friday would say on the classic 1950s whodunit television series Dragnet, "Just the words, ma'am."

A solution to a Quintessential Puzzle is an ordered list of typically ten, eleven, twelve, or thirteen words satisfying certain criteria regarding each individual word's length and letter palette.

Here is an outlying example of a Quintessential Puzzle whose ordered list of six words is much shorter than is usually the case.

The gist of this exception will suffice to demonstrate the anatomy of a Quintessential Puzzle regardless of the number of words involved.

A word such as TROGLODYTE, for example; there may or may not be more than one word that fits the profile.

The second word on this list happens to be specified to be precisely eleven letters in length and spelled with at least one instance of each of these seven letters: AINQSUV - and with zero, one, or more of the letters of the palette prescribed for the first word: DEGLORTY - and with absolutely no other letter or combination of letters.

A word such as EQUIVALENTS, for example.

The third word on this list happens to be specified to be precisely eight letters in length and spelled with at least one instance of each of these three letters: FWZ - and with zero, one, or more of the cumulative letter-palette prescribed for the first two words: ADEGILNOQRSTUVY - and with absolutely no other letter or combination of letters.

A word such as FROWZIER.

A word such as EXAMPLING.

The fifth word on this list happens to be specified to be precisely eight letters in length and spelled with at least one instance of each of these three letters: BCH - and with zero, one, or more of the cumulative letter-palette prescribed for the first four words: ADEFGILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - and with absolutely no other letter or combination of letters.

A word such as BECHANCE.

The sixth and final word on this unusual list is also specified to be precisely eight letters in length but spelled with at least one instance of each of these two letters: JK - and with zero, one, or more of the cumulative letter-palette prescribed for the first five words: ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

A word such as JOYSTICK.

It does not get any simpler - nor any more difficult - than that.

Each Quintessential Puzzle eventually - sooner or later - employs all twenty-six letters of the alphabet.

In fact, it does not get any more quintessential than that.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

All 999 of these sequels take full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

Each such given ninety-six-word aggregate has undergone a very, very, rigorous selection process.

For starters, no two or more words within the confinement of any given subcollection are identical.

More to the point, each given word within each grouping has a partner tucked away there on the sly.

Unriddle each of the 294 given, riddled Pair-Off Puzzle grids by pairing off the ninety-six given words into forty-eight composite words of your own concoction.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Such alphabetic discernment is, of course, an essential language skill.

Ask any schoolteacher.

More to the point, arguably, the first letter sequence that every child ought to learn to pick out of a confusion of seemingly random letters is that of its own first name.

Start right at the beginning by familiarizing your child with precisely that spelling.

In the very beginning you, of course, will have to circle the letters with a pencil or crayon as your child points them out.

Before this book is even halfway filled out, however, your confident child will no doubt insist on grabbing the proverbial reins out of your hands and marking-up the remaining pages unassisted.

So be it.

This snowballing procedure provides a written record of your child's progress in recognizing letter sequences.

These pre-reading-skills exercises are structured into five progressive degrees of difficulty.

Then ten 54-point Courier letters per line.

Then fifteen 36-point Courier letters per line.

Then twenty 27-point Courier letters per line.

Finally twenty-five 21.6-point Courier letters per line.

By the time you and your child finish this massive tome your child will be well-prepared for kindergarten and beyond.

And you will have a family heirloom to not only treasure yourself, but, someday in the not too distant future, to also show your child when your child moves into a college dormitory.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

All 999 of these sequels take full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

Classic wordsearch gives you an itemized LIST of what are presumed to be spelled out words.

Your so-called challenge is to locate each of the items expounded CONTIGUOUSLY across, down, and diagonally within a rectangular array of alphabetic letters.

Ho hum.

How utterly boring!

Classic wordsearch is rote pattern recognition.

Why waste your time trying to find some needles in a haystack?

The so-called words on the list might just as well be GIBBERISH.

Classic wordsearch is hardly cerebral at all.

Catchwork, on the other hand, challenges you to find an UNDISCLOSED word --- or, more likely, and much more PUZZLINGLY, an undisclosed PAIR of words --- VARIOUSLY spelled out DISCONTIGOUSLY across EACH and EVERY 25-letter line of a 7-line block of text.

Catchwork behooves you to keep a dictionary handy as you sublimablely build up your vocabulary.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

All 999 of these sequels take full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

Each rectangular Loch Ness Puzzle grid represents a fleeting sonar image of the presence or not of the marine life - fabled and otherwise - native to Loch Ness in northwest Scotland.

The numerous unremarkable aquatic inhabitants consist of any number of specifically fish specimens anywhere from one to five grid-cells in length.

On the other hand, the Loch Ness Monsters, while they are so few in number that they effortlessly make themselves scarce, are individually each more substantial than any one of the fish found there.

The Loch Ness Monsters are up to an astounding dozen grid-cells in length and more!

Be aware that the diverse menagerie of Loch Ness dwellers may be oriented either horizontally or vertically.

Furthermore, the digit or digits along two of the four sides of each grid respectively provide the number of grid-cells in the corresponding row or column, as the case may be, that DO NOT indicate the presence of a fish or a Loch Ness Monster.

Finally, the cumulative graphical results after some fifty percent of the possible probes have been exercised are shown to you right off the bat to start you off in good stead already halfway to your finish line.

These gratis revelations may alternatively disclose nothingness (indicated in gray).

Or the presence of a single-cell guppy (a black circle).

Or the presence of a head or tail of a fish or monster (a black, rounded-off square).

Or the presence of a midsection of a fish or monster (a black square).

But the overarching goal is to find the longest Loch Ness Monster in each book of a total of 294 Loch Ness Puzzles.

Each book consists of forty-two 39x27-cell Loch Ness Puzzles.

Plus forty-two additional 46x32-cell Loch Ness Puzzles.

Plus forty-two additional 53x37-cell Loch Ness Puzzles.

Plus forty-two additional 60x42-cell Loch Ness Puzzles.

Plus forty-two additional 67x47-cell Loch Ness Puzzles.

Plus forty-two additional 74x52-cell Loch Ness Puzzles.

Plus forty-two additional 80x57-cell Loch Ness Puzzles.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

All 999 of these sequels take full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

Given a 14-row by 10-column grid prefilled with a total of 140 arbitrary integers, arrange 0, 1, 2, ... 559 in a 28-row by 20-column second grid such that the sum of the four numbers which you placed in each spatially corresponding composition of four cells in the 28x20 grid matches the value given in the 14x10 grid.

Each of the 294 puzzles in each of the 999 books in this audacious series created by Francis Gurtowski is a separate entity.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

All 999 of these sequels take full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

There is one place for each letter of the alphabet in the twenty-six empty positions of each of the two redacted columns of each of the 294 puzzles in each of the 999 books in this audacious series created by Francis Gurtowski.

Each puzzle is a separate entity.

There is chaff along with the five-or-more-letter word on each 25-position row.

Not all of the letters to the left of the first empty position are used to spell out the pertinent word. Ditto for the letters to the right of the second empty.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

This wide-ranging series of fourteen grid-packed workbooks revives dormant childhood enthusiasms for the absorbing dots-and-boxes game.

All fourteen of these sequels take full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

These massive collections of lattices enable jaundiced former players like you and me to skip the increasingly onerous foreplay of the challenging leisure-time activity and immediately cut to the chase.

Each bound volume in the sequence in turn contains more and more complicated - and more and more carefully calculated by way of my number-crunching algorithm - partially stroked dots-and-boxes setups.

Each setup has been set up for you to complete wherein each of the constituent interstices has been teed up but not quite boxed in.

It took a lot of code for me to accomplish this amazing hack.

But I was determined to create this time-saving literary staircase.

I have grown to loathe mindlessly hand-plotting myriad dots in the same old pattern for what seemed like the millionth time.

I furthermore found myself abhorring the tedious stroke-by-stroke buildup to the commencement of the gist of the dots-and-boxes game.

The more rows and columns a dots-and-boxes grid has the better, I suppose.

But the nasty corollary to that hasty assertion is that grid growth becomes more and more of a impediment when laying out the vertices dot-by-dot by hand.

Chess, on the one hand, and dots-and-boxes, on the other, have comparable long-drawn-out opening sequences which only eventually climax in comparable "check states."

Unfortunately, over time both over-studied prelims have calcified into timeworn call-and-response rituals akin to military cadences.

Of course, "check" is the state in which a chess king is exposed to attack from which the premier chess piece must be protected or moved to safety.

The dots-and-boxes sense of that phenomenon arises whenever the very next stroke wherever will tee up the next player to box in an interstice or even a chain of them.

Discover the startling aesthetics of the selectively-stroked patterns that emerge as book by book in this series the densities of the underlying infrastructure increase in leaps and bounds.

Unlike chess/checkers players or Scrabble players, who are invested in standard grid dimensions e.g. 8x8, 15x15.

The precise number of rows of boxes forming the box-game grid does not matter to us.

Although, the more the better.

Nor the precise number of columns of boxes.

Ditto.

We only insist that the boxes be squares.

During the preparation of this book series I have consequently so far limited myself to a certain ratio of rows to columns.

The "golden ratio" in this case happens to be 7/5 or 1.4.

7x5, 14x10, 21x15, 28x20, 35x25, 42x30, 49x35, 56x40, 63x45, 70x50, 77x55, 84x60, 91x65,

and 98x70.

The respective edge lengths range from 1.5 to 0.1071143 inches.

Prepare to sharpen your pencils!

Each sequel has 590 bound-and-paperbacked pages
packed with 294 vocabulary-challenging, word puzzles.

Each puzzle is a stack of 6-14 words 4-15 letters long.
Both an overall schematic and redacted spellings are provided.

The nub and the rub of it? You have to complete the 6-14 riddles.

Each word has 1-6 distinct vowels (i.e. AEIOU and Y).
Each word has 1-10 distinct consonants too.

The vowels are laid out in their precise order of succession.
The consonants are missing in place.

Every consonant is used somewhere in each puzzle.
Each consonant is restricted to a single word per puzzle.

The 20 consonants & the 6-14 words correspond many-to-one.

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The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Once again, each of these sequels takes full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

Whereas the book series cited above is packed with 294 two-page, word puzzles, this one is instead chock-full of 147 four-page, letter-substitution specimens of ciphertext-cum-plaintext.

The concept is simple enough.

Each puzzle consists of a 45x90-letter rectangular block of alphabetic text which you have to translate into a 45x90-digit block of decimal text.

Replace each letter A-Z with a digit 1-9.

Homophonic?

Homophonic refers to the fact that each decimal digit in the plaintext is alternatively represented by more than one ciphertext alphabetical letter.

Moreover, this is a uniquely mathematical, letter-substitution, cipher system.

Whereas letter-substitution schemes have heretofore have been exclusively non-mathematical in nature.

Moreover, the mathematical aspects of the plaintext go far beyond the mere replacement of each letter A-Z in the ciphertext with a decimal digit 1-9 in the plaintext.

To begin with, each row of 90 decimal digits must add up to the same sum whatever.

Spoiler alert!

Regarding the puzzle specimen elucidated below, the common linear checksum just happens to be 449.

In theory, given the common linear checksum, it may be possible for you to find A-Z analytically rather than by trial and error.

In the books themselves, the required changes (or not) in the sum of the digits in the succeeding columns are designated graphically.

Regarding the puzzle specimen elucidated below, the required columnar increments (or not) are instead designated in absolute terms:

+2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 4, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 0, 3, 2, 1, 3, and 7.

Spoiler alert!

The first columnar checksum just happens to be 191.

Ergo, the succeeding 89 checksums are:

193, 193, 194, 196, 196, 199, 201, 201, 203, 203, 204, 204, 205, 206, 206, 207, 207, 208, 208, 208, 210, 210, 210, 211, 211, 211, 212, 213, 213, 214, 215, 215, 216, 216, 216, 216, 217, 218, 218, 219, 219, 219, 221, 225, 226, 228, 228, 228, 229, 229, 229, 229, 230, 231, 231, 232, 232, 233, 233, 233, 233, 233, 234, 236, 236, 236, 236, 236, 238, 239, 239, 241, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 255, 255, 258, 260, 261, 264, and 271.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Once again, each of these sequels takes full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

Each volume contains 4,704 Bookend Puzzles.

The concept is simple enough.

Each Bookend Puzzle consists of a 132-place row of decimal digits formed by concatenating some 24-36 prime numbers ranging from 101 to 999983.

The challenge is to separate the given row into its components i.e. find and mark all of the pertinent prime numbers hidden in plain sight.

Here is such an aforesaid row:

21152259574687254899263358157527959348745751
68292812439916827174191259592139276796134847
51497352457363329377818952125499377274315521

Now here I have broken the row down into its intended constituents:

21152259574687254899263358157527959348745751
68292812439916827174191259592139276796134847
51497352457363329377818952125499377274315521

The concatenated components of the row, in a row, are 211, 52259, 574687, 254899, 263, 358157, 5279, 593, 487457, 516829, 281243, 991, 6827, 17419, 1259, 592139, 2767, 9613, 484751, 4973, 52457, 363329, 37781, 89521, 254993, 7727, 431, and 5521.

If you accept the premise that a prime number is analogous to a word, then a Bookend Puzzle is a counterpart of a word search puzzle with certain cosmetic deviations, namely (a) a row does not rigorously fit the accepted notion of a grid, (b) a list of the prime numbers that are sought after is not provided to you, and (c) Bookend Puzzles are not topical; the common theme of one and all is prime numbers per se.

You might want to try solving Bookend Puzzles by recursively pruning the respective rows outside-in, i.e. alternatively left-to-right and right-to-left and lopping off the bookends.

With respect to the row shown above, 211 is definitely the first component because the alternative, i.e. 2115, is excessively factorable: 3, 5, 9, 15, 45, 47, 141, 235, 423, and 705.

Okay, so far.

Here is a rub: on the opposite end of the row, both 521 and 5521 are candidates inasmuch as both are indeed prime numbers.

But, look, not 15521; the third option is excessively factorable: 11, 17, 83, 187, 913, and 1411.

Bet on 5521 to be the rightmost component inasmuch as every multiple-place, decimal number ending in 5 is excessively factorable by definition.

And so on.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Once again, each of these sequels takes full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

The concept is simple enough.

Each puzzle consists of a sparse 45x45 block of alphabetic text which you have to translate into a sparse 45x45 block of decimal text.

Replace each letter A-Z with a digit 1-9.

If you accept the premise that a prime number is analogous to a word, then a Homophonic Prepper-Primes-Puzzle is a counterpart of a crossword puzzle with certain cosmetic deviations, namely

(a) the free-range layout of the resulting niches of the puzzle was not predetermined by an articulated grid,

(b) the clues, such as they are, which is not much, are statistical rather than literary, and

(c) the puzzles are not topical whatsoever; the common theme of one and all is prime numbers per se.

Be advised that in order to make your decryption experience even more challenging - and thus much, much, much more rewarding - than it would ordinarily be, there is a catch in my approach to my separate encryptions of the 45x45-square, open-plan crosswords.

Not content to simply substitute precisely one ciphertext letter per plaintext letter (decimal digit), I instead more or less arbitrarily substitute one or more ciphertext letters for each plaintext letter (decimal digit).

I instead resort to what is called homophonic coding.

According to Merriam-Webster, a homophone is one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling - such as the words to, too, and two.

Conventual homophonic coding not only camouflages but also distorts the patented statistics of the English language, which are common knowledge amongst Scrabble aficionados.

The decimal-digit statistics of the prime numbers are yet to be patented.

With a simple substitution cipher, if the respective frequencies of the plaintext crossword approximate normality then the same will be said of the ciphertext crossword - only spread differently.

A simple substitution cipher is comparatively a piece of cake to attack with paper and pencil.

Homophonic encoding, on the other hand, is absolutely a beast.

Across

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Across

614113 111119 8  611131  3 8513 612113   2287
  233113 5  511111 8 351121 2 4 5  8    6  5 
411113 169753 1  111611  1 311153  8  284149 
 881 21191  311111  431141 5  1 111337  4 677
411119 111149 2  15319 1 411157 1  5 1  8 5 5
 6 3 7 113  913183  411143 1  111271 1  91411
 9  3 6 9 3  7    2 1  1         1  79669 6 3
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3 1 1 41983 1 223 1  157 1 2  4  1  631739 1 
3 1 6 8  2 4261 6 1 617  1 98123 3  3  6 7211
22111 1  3541 711317 111263 5 2 611213 3 1 3 
1 2   326923  56993  2 1 1 361111 2  111427 5
549121  1 6 611111 299147   7   111341   7  8
9  1 292627 6  1 1 7   1 261127 1 7 1 613 317
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 9 1 111191 1 1  711133   6     9 14479 11923
 6 2 2  1  211619  139 747521  9 2 511151 1 1
 921637   9 7 5  8  9  1  3 111347 7 2  887  
 2  1 111217  566681 731587 1  1 111443 91127
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3  47513   6 1571  584911 337529  643 111493 
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5  113161 4  333131 1 211151 5 6  3 3 4 61121
7  1 1 3 7723 1 111913 3  1 711187 211177 1 1
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Down

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42181  211129 1  2 137 2  799619  311123 1 1 
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313297 5    121123  7 593171 6 3  1 193943 3 
 1 1  674813 971 711121 1  111143    2  8    
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1 69119 9  616111 1163  1  111317 2 1 1 1  1 
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1 7 1 353 526741 919 4 647 787139 2 1 2713 1 
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611113 6  391117 86113 431   9413    3  6  2 
1 1 5 291113   1  8  7 111227 531121  7 41131
181 3  8  7 27211 178351 9 7 3797  141319 6 1
1 641413 6  9  139 6  821113 4  2111  1 11119
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8 3511 229 3 1  2     3 1 1  1   7 211199  1 
521 1  7 856711 11113 7  791111 9  1  2      
1 1 5    1 1 2   1  115151 1 4 553211 111487 
341171 14221 7   1  1 2  111431 1  1 3 1  1 4
  5  1 1 3 1  1 93131 916129  1913 511153 149
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1  1 213131 1 1 271231 6 739391     51133 523
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1  3  7 631 41341 4 333331  4  613181 261167 
3  711913 311  71249 4   112327 2 111491 1 1 
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2 465469 2 7 349171 819911 727  712121  7 1 1
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7  75133 1 587131 7  9 411233    1 3 7    1 9

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Once again, each of these sequels takes full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

The concept is simple enough.

Each puzzle consists of a sparsely-populated 45x45 block of alphabetic text which you have to translate into a similary sparsely-populated 45x45 block of decimal text.

Replace each letter A-Z with a digit 1-9.

According to Merriam-Webster, a xenophile is one attracted to foreign things; by extension, a xenophilic representation of a number is comprised of exclusively different digits.

0, 01, 012, 0123, 01234, 012345, 0123456, 01234567, 012345678, 0123456789, 012345679, 0123456798, 01234568, 0123456879, 012345689, 0123456897, 01234569, 012345697, 0123456978, 012345698, 0123456987, 0123457, 01234576, 012345768, 0123457689, 012345769, 0123457698, 01234578, 012345786, 0123457869, 012345789, 0123457896, 01234579, ... 9876543210.

Contrast that with a prime number, which is a counting number with exactly two factors, namely 1 and the number itself.

Zenophilic numbers are easier to deal with inasmuch as one can readily tell a zenophilic number at a glance.

Prime numbers, on the other hand, lack visible cues identifying themselves as such.

Perhaps the most amazing fact about zenophilic numbers is that there is but a modest, finite number of zenophilic numbers, merely 6,598,180 of them in the entire universe.

If you accept my premise that a zenophilic number is analogous to a word, then a Homophonic Zenolithic Prepper Puzzle is a counterpart of a crossword puzzle with certain cosmetic deviations, namely

(a) the free-range layout of the resulting niches of the puzzle was not predetermined by an articulated grid,

(c) the puzzles are not topical whatsoever; the common theme of one and all is zenophilic numbers per se.

Be advised of the fact that I do not use a simple substitution cipher.

I instead resort to what is called homophonic coding.

According to Merriam-Webster, a homophone is one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling - such as the words to, too, and two.

Conventual homophonic coding not only camouflages but also distorts the patented statistics of the English language, which are common knowledge amongst Scrabble aficionados.

The results of a census of the decimal digits of the zenophilic numbers: there are precisely 5,611,771 of each digit 0-9.

With a simple substitution cipher, if the respective frequencies of the plaintext crossword approximate normality then the same will be said of the ciphertext crossword - only spread differently.

Not that there is any spread here whatsoever.

A simple substitution cipher is comparatively a piece of cake to attack with paper and pencil; homophonic encoding, on the other hand, is absolutely a beast.

Across

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The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Once again, each of these sequels takes full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

Each puzzle consists of a sparsely-populated 45x45 block of alphabetic gibberish which you have to translate into a similary sparsely-populated 45x45 block of crossed words.

Replace each letter A-Z with another.

A Ciphertext Prepper-Puzzles is a crossword puzzle with certain cosmetic deviations, namely

(a) the free-range layout of the resulting niches of the puzzle was not predetermined by an articulated grid,

(b) the clues, such as they are, which is not much, are statistical rather than literary, and

(c) the puzzles are not topical whatsoever; the common theme of one and all is letter substitution per se.

I instead resort to what is called homophonic coding.

According to Merriam-Webster, a homophone is one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling - such as the words to, too, and two.

Conventual homophonic coding not only camouflages but also distorts the patented statistics of the English language, which are common knowledge amongst Scrabble aficionados.

With a simple substitution cipher, if the respective frequencies of the plaintext crossword approximate normality then the same will be said of the ciphertext crossword - only spread differently.

A simple substitution cipher is comparatively a piece of cake to attack with paper and pencil; homophonic encoding, on the other hand, is absolutely a beast.

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The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Once again, each of these sequels takes full advantage of (Amazon) Kindle Direct Publishing's twin, generous, upper limits of 590 bound-and-paperbacked, 8.5x11-inch pages.

The concept is simple enough. A Homophonic Prepper-Sums-Puzzle is a counterpart of a crossword puzzle with certain cosmetic deviations, namely

(a) the free-range layout of the resulting niches of the puzzle was not predetermined by an articulated grid,

(b) the clues, such as they are, which is not much, are statistical rather than literary, and

Replace each letter of the alphabet with a decimal digit such that

(a) the respective sums of the digits in the multiple-place niches situated across the grid are mutually equal to some N1 total

and at the same time

(b) the respective sums of the digits in the orthogonal, multiple-place niches situated down the grid are mutually equal to some different N2 total.

For example, 1911699 obviously does not equal 369919, but both 1+1+9+1+1+6+9+9 and 3+6+9+9+1+9 equal 37.

Similarly, 11842199 does not equal 711899, but both 1+1+8+4+2+1+9+9 and 7+1+1+8+9+9 equal 35.

The plain text here is a solution to a novel scheme of crossword puzzles such that it is not words per se but instead numerical summations which are crossed across and down.

Be advised that in order to make your decryption experience even more challenging - and thus much, much, much more rewarding - than it would ordinarily be, there is a catch in my approach to my separate encryptions of the 15x15-square, open-plan crosswords.

So I do not use a simple substitution cipher.

I instead resort to what is called homophonic coding.

According to Merriam-Webster, a homophone is one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling - such as the words to, too, and two.

Conventual homophonic coding not only camouflages but also distorts the patented statistics of the English language, which are common knowledge amongst Scrabble aficionados.

The decimal-digit statistics of arbitrary sums are yet to be patented.

With a simple substitution cipher, if the respective frequencies of the plaintext crossword approximate normality then the same will be said of the ciphertext crossword - only spread differently.

A simple substitution cipher is comparatively a piece of cake to attack with paper and pencil.

Homophonic encoding, on the other hand, is absolutely a beast.

Across

ZHAQBIFS ZNEYMV
H  Q Z B Z B B 
P  X H HNXOULIS
UHTXHAME O U H 
Q  C B RHPQXOMI
RHBYHOVS C S B 
J  M B   W K X 
J  BBPAIOZP H  
  Q H O   U B  
NHOUYXWK NBIIJV
A W A N   Q Q  
HBXRXIEV  B N  
R H N   BCRHLJS
IBOUHRKK  V S  
M V A   NQKAHWV

Down

ZHPUQRJJ NAHRIM
H  H H   H B B 
A  T B  QOWXHOV
QQXXCYMB U R U 
B  H H BHYAXNHA
IZHABOBP X I R 
F  M V AOWNE K 
SBHERS I K V K 
  N H  O    B N
ZZXOPCWZ N  C Q
N O Q  PUBQBRVK
EBUUXSK  I  H A
Y L O  HBIQNLSH
MBIHMBX  J  J W
V S I    V  S V

Across

11811999 129999
1  1 1 1 1 1 1 
7  3 1 12351999
11731899 5 1 1 
1  6 1 41713599
41191599 6 9 1 
9  9 1   9 9 3 
9  11789517 1  
  1 1 5   1 1  
21519399 219999
8 9 8 2   1 1  
11343999  1 2  
4 1 2   1641999
91511499  9 9  
9 9 8   2198199

Down

11711499 281499
1  1 1   1 1 1 
8  7 1  1593159
11336991 1 4 1 
1  1 1 11983218
91181517 3 9 4 
9  9 9 85929 9 
911949 9 9 9 9 
  2 1  5    1 2
11357691 2  6 1
2 5 1  71111499
9111399  9  1 8
9 9 5  11912991
9191913  9  9 9
9 9 9    9  9 9

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

Buy this educational series of self-teaching, coloring books for your children, grandchildren, and students.

Sit your child down with this series of over a hundred coloring books.

It is enough to make you want to grab a fistful of colored pencils and have at it yourself.

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

The way (or ways) in which a word is routinely spelled out (in the proverbial dictionary) is pretty much cut-and-dried.

The notable exceptions being the annoying British variants.

Such as analogue versus analog, and razzamatazz versus razzmatazz.

It could be worse, I guess.

If the Francophile Thomas Jefferson had had his way, way back when, then the United States of America would have adopted Anglo-Saxon as our official language.

From here on out, by "word" I shall mean a correct spelling of a word.

By "anagram" I shall mean a permuted spelling.

By "palette" I shall mean a spelling shorn of duplicate instances of letters.

Brevity is a virtue.

The twenty-six letters of the alphabet are the ultimate palette, but I know of no such word employing at least one instance of each.

The longest palettes I could find are fourteen letters in length:

abcehlmorstuxy abceilmnorstuy abdeilmorstuxy acdefhilmnortu
acdeghilmortuy acefilmnoprstv aceghilmnoprty aceghilnoprsuy
acegilmorstuvy acehilmnoprtuy adeghilmnostyz adehilnoprstuz
adeilmnorstuvy aeghilmnortuwy bcehilmnoprsty cdeghilmnopruy
ceghilnoprstuy

For example, bcehilmnoprsty is the palette of this threesome:

comprehensibility incomprehensibility intercomprehensibility

Palettes are as far beyond anagrams as anagrams are beyond words.

A First Normal Form of a word is the word itself.

Such as caterer.

A Second Normal Form of a word is the alphabetized anagrammatization of the word.

Such as aceerrt.

A Third Normal Form of a word is the alphabetized permutation of the word (and thus of its anagrams) shorn of duplicate instances of letters.

Such as acert.

Each First is subordinate to one and only one Second and to one and only one Third.

Each Second is subordinate to one and only one Third.

On the other hand, each Third subsumes one or more Seconds.

Such as acert subsumes aacertt, aacerttt, acceert, aceeerrt, aceeertt, aceerrt, aceert, acerrt, acerrtt and acert itself.

Each Second subsumes one or more Firsts.

Such as aceerrt subsumes caterer, retrace and terrace.

87,624  5-Letter Anagrams
78,870  6-letter Anagrams
43,410  7-letter Anagrams
48,484  8-letter Anagrams
46,146  9-letter Anagrams
23,310 10-letter Anagrams
24,830 11-letter Anagrams
37,242 12-letter Anagrams
35,728 13-letter Anagrams
18,093 14-letter Anagrams
19,645 15-letter Anagrams
22,077 16-letter Anagrams
21,406 17-letter Anagrams
22,110 18-letter Anagrams
20,923 19-letter Anagrams
21,513 20-letter Anagrams
18,909 21-letter Anagrams

1st 18,569 Anagrams
2nd 18,569 Anagrams
3rd 18,569 Anagrams

The prolific author is an authentic, ancient coder, going all the way back to IBM Poughkeepsie (Building 705, no less, second floor) and the heyday of OS/360, Robert Rex Seeber Jr. and the horizontal-microcoded System/360 Model 50, coding pads and the coding-pad veto, punch cards and keypunch machines, and self-modifying code.

Francis Gurtowski is also a self-styled Henry Ford of contemporary, do-it-yourself, print-on-demand, book publishing.

Henry Ford is synonymous with the assembly line, a perfected process for swiftly turning out a series of ingenious, finished products in a foolproof, mechanically-efficient manner.

It is a fun and effective way to progressively assimilate the entire vocabulary of the English language, at your own pace, one word-length at a time, five-letter words (and phrases) on up.

The author obsessively digested dozens of English dictionaries into massive lists of words, arranged each of the respective lists into alphabetical order, and then scrambled the spellings multiple times.

Each book is dedicated to a single length of word, with thousands and thousands of puzzles up front, and the solutions in the back of each book.

The solutions are in alphabetical order, which gives away the fact that the solutions to the first anagrams begin with the first letter of the alphabet and the solutions to the last anagrams begin with the last letter of the alphabet.

Moreover, one anagram is solved on each page, which practically gives away the solutions to the anagrams immediately before it and immediately after it.

It always seemed odd to me that schools do not teach all the one-letter words first, all the two-letter words second, all the three-letter words third, and so forth.

It is worth a try.

Hello, world.

A Terse Computer Program in a Strange Language

• dial and punch append to boot.txt and tape.txt and

• myEDSAC.exe reads both of those documents and writes out print.txt from scratch.

• configure and mount soak up boot.txt and tape.txt,

• file forms any written communication into print.txt,

• clear, copy, and begin mimic push buttons found on the dashboard of EDSAC, and

• general enables curious me to examine the minutiae of the simulated general store.

Then and Now

Today, the display-type subcommands (such as general) of myEDSAC.exe are the mainstay of a bonus, debugging/code-optimization bundle:

• state changing alter-type subcommands,

• data collection and reduction drills,

• controls to initiate, focus, or throttle back on event recording, and

• code visualization tricks that make abstractions such as code loops seem to materialize via graphs and figures.

Dot Notation

dial.c

boot.txt

octal.txt

decimal.txt

punch.c

tape.txt

Cellular Stores

On the other hand, British-made EDSAC made do with the hangover of the sub prime medium of five-hole tape. Even so, EDSAC did so only for the input of both data and directives, not for the output of anything.

Without tape output, EDSAC was at best merely half a Turing Machine.

Cambridge University flaunted the uniquely British aesthetic of jerry-building, cobbled together radar accessories and a Creed Model 7B teleprinter, and mustered not one, but two, false-fronted bulk cellular stores. EDSAC's off-the-shelf acoustical delay lines had originated during the war for the purpose of motion detection in the context of radar pings.

Boot storage consisted of 738 binary digits marshaled into forty-one eighteen-bit cells numbered 0-40. The larger of the British tandem of bulk cellular stores, general storage, was composed of 9,216 bits arranged into 512 cells of the same size and shape, and similarly numbered 0-511.

A fluffy cloud of formless storage capacity (which, after all, is what an acoustical delay line amounts to) is totally useless as a playing surface without a crisp time-sliced veneer of structure. Post-ENIAC computers require a proper digital game board for their dualistic code which consists of both data and directives where a binary number can play either role or both.

An optical illusion of a honeycomb or an egg crate is far more satisfactory than the semblance of a blob. Unit cells of the former are numbered 0, 1, 2 and so on, discerning one cell from another cell is child's play, and the Lego-like parts conveniently snap together into pairs, quads, et cetera.

Lesson Learned

Herein the cells of boot storage are rechristened ranks, lest there be even more confusion differentiating them versus the cells of general storage. A total of 246 octal dials (six per rank) directly manipulated the boot store. However, the resulting lineup of data/directives was merely warehoused there because the bootstrap itself had to be replicated in general storage before the starter substance was appropriately sited for execution.

A certain push button copied ranks 0-40 into cells 0-40 of general storage, and then another dashboard control pulled the trigger and (ready or not) got the entire computational caboodle chugging along down the track.

Boot storage was strictly off-limits to the personnel who coded EDSAC; to every last one of the coders. Cambridge University strategically fenced off the boot store in favor of an absolute mystification seemingly bestowed fully formed by the gods. This benefaction loaded code concoctions from tape into general storage, and the bootstrap had it all: the bootstrap was the beneficiary of direct manipulation, it was sited at cell 0, and it was also entered there.

However, those perogatives had consequences inasmuch as they prohibited the coders from ever again directly dialing code in by hand elegantly in octal. Intern/designated coder of the bootstrap, David J. Wheeler, alone had been afforded that privilege, and even him only once.

After that, everyone had to program EDSAC at arm's length; in base-32, yet. Eighteen bits is not a multiple of five bits, and this affront to the worship of elegance chafed the more sensitive coders. Aesthetics aside, it was much too much to expect repetitions of the feat of 246 flawless dial settings. As a last resort, draconian measures encapsulated the bootstrap, and (as an added bonus) the primitive permanent arrangement also survived electrical power outages.

Encapsulation

However, the accompanying proposal to also use tape for the code itself faced a wall of skepticism despite the pitch/spiel that the envisioned canonical tape snippets of dependable data/directives would be equivalent to generic jigsaw puzzle pieces.

Tape facilitated (a) encapsulation of modules of code besides the bootstrap, (b) infallible replication of the modules by machine for backup, and (c) immediate repair of the modules with the equivalent of errata slips.

The equivalent of Band-Aids simply overlaid one datum/directive with another, while the likes of surgical repairs digressed to and from ad hoc curative subroutines sited in set-aside patch areas.

Best-of-class subroutines were punched into separate tapes which were not only color coded. They were also labeled, archived, advertised, and retrieved from the vault on demand, and enterprising coders got a leg up by tapping into these predigested encapsulations.

The personnel who operated EDSAC stood off and entered the spotlight as needed. Human beings on call at all times dismounted the current tape, mounted the next tape, pressed a button to resume the blocked code, and retreated offstage again.

When a package was sufficiently proven, then and only then was the bundle turned over to a designated closer (someone analogous to a motion picture film editor) who proceeded to merge the constituent tapes into an ostensibly seamless stand-alone tape.

Each directive (as well as each datum disguised as an directive) spanned a minimum of two rows of tape. Furthermore, the cryptic protocol for delineating these patterns further obfuscated the arm's-length coding rigmarole.

The bootstrap took up its own store and squatted in the prime cells of general storage: the monolithic bootstrap was lodged at a fixed location in the general store while the various combinations of homeless modules in cahoots were indiscriminately domiciled just about anywhere.

The convenient sophism of imagining the floaters layering the bootstrap deferred the inevitable reckoning with respect to occupancy.

• First, the coders positioned the various modules (the main module of the application program, its subroutines, and its data) making sure to avoid encroaching upon the footprint/bootprint of the bootstrap.

• Then, the coders acquainted the bootstrap with the pertinent specifics of the site plan, the spatial adjustments required by the individual directives, and the entry point of the composition of code.

Such superfluities were the gist of metaprogramming which was concerned with the superficialities of the code; not with the essential logic of the code itself.

Tear Down the Wall

Moreover, myEDSAC.exe supports as many ranks of boot storage as it does cells of general storage.

The simple-enough transformation from a niggling 41 ranks of boot storage

to a full-blown 2048 ranks of them

encourages an intimate unmediated machine language relationship with the zeros and ones of myEDSAC.exe channeling EDSAC.

Bletchley Park and Jurassic Park

Boffins (upon their return to academia and industry) reclaimed the familiar spools of long strips as narrow as ribbon.

Furthermore, a sufficiency of hoarded rolls of blank tape had been squirreled away to result in a sharp spot-market devaluation, and a surplus stash at Cambridge University was put to especially good use.

Over the course of its career, the workhorse of a service bureau for scientific applications chugalugged tape and spewed out printouts around the clock. However, in spite of its demonstrated prowess, EDSAC was unceremoniously scrapped after a curtailed lifetime of nonstop operation.

The official narrative is that the one-off was shortsightedly melted down and the slag was sold off by the ton, but, instead, EDSAC may have been conveniently done away with ahead of an embarrassing pending collapse of the module library under its own administrative weight.

Published verses of some of the extinct laboratory instrument's software miraculously survived the conflagration, and David J. Wheeler's densely encoded and almost double helical algorithm stands out as a Rosetta stone and a paradigm of a teaching aid.

While its controversial code mutations amount to thought crimes (from the point of view of the computer programming nannies — who freak out at the mere thought of self-modifying code), David J. Wheeler's bootstrap — having been preserved in proverbial amber — is now even more opportune as a ritual to verify that myEDSAC.exe does not misrepresent the prospective coder's view of EDSAC.

Soul of a New Machine

As American historian Professor Jonathan Steinberg put it so well in a different context: "He had a sureness of touch and depth of insight into the tangled lines of force ... which led him to success after success. He made the impossible look easy, which is the indelible mark of the champion at any game."

American essayist & poet Ralph Waldo Emerson would have classified David J. Wheeler as among the relatively great: "They are such, in whom, at the moment of success, a quality is ripe which is then in request. Other days will demand other qualities ..."

David J. Wheeler carefully crafted the maximum of forty-one data/directives

separated each string of eighteen bits into six substrings of three bits apiece

converted the 246 binary triplets to base-8

and hand-dialed the octal numerals into the primitive read-only memory.

The token amount of makeshift boot storage was the best that David J. Wheeler's academic advisor, Maurice V. Wilkes, could do on short notice. Fortunately, the niche itself was perfectly situated well out of reach.

The nook was fortuitously tucked away where David J. Wheeler's precocious contribution to the business at hand (and what turned out to be David J. Wheeler's priceless bequest to all posterity) would not be fodder for hackers.

Registers

• Accumulator
• Directive
• Dual use
• Input
• Output
• Pointer

The accumulator register was the length of four cells. It consisted of a pad bit, a sign bit, and seventy bits of precision.

All negative numbers were expressed in twos-complement form.