Seeking BrouHaHa Smalltalk

[stepleton]

I'm searching for an old Smalltalk implementation from the mid-'80s called "BrouHaHa". A paper about it is browseable online here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221321630_BrouHaHa-_A_Portable_Smalltalk_Interpreter

I'm interested in running it on a Whitechapel MG-1, but the paper says "portable" right there in the name, so I'm long-shot hoping that there's maybe someone who has seen it on another system (maybe one in the UK). If anyone has encountered it I'd be delighted to know...

 

[Svenska]

It sounds very much like a research paper... you may be in luck trying to contact the author, if he's still around.

 

[stepleton]

Thanks for the suggestion... in fact I have done, and he is still around! And still working on Smalltalk things: https://github.com/eliotmiranda

However I think that he has other irons in the fire for now and not a lot of time to dig through old hard drives.

I think that the program may have been a few places in UK academia, in any case---I know it to have been at University of York, at Queen Mary College (now QM U of London), and at Whitechapel Computer Works itself. There was never a good chance of finding this thing, but I hope there might be some chance...

 

[Elektraglide]

It was written by Eliot Miranda at QMC (while I was a postgrad there). Eliot is based in SF working on Squeak last time I spoke with him.

 

[Elektraglide]

I expect you know this but the name comes from a King Crimson album.

 

[stepleton]

I only knew the first bit (about Eliot Miranda), who we reached out to a while ago; see earlier posts in this thread. Any chance you squirreled away any copies of your own?

I don't know much about King Crimson, I'm afraid, except for something about mellotrons and a bit of guitar sampled in a Future Sound of London song. I had to dig a bit to find out what the reference was.