Alcor

ALCOR - ALgol COnverteR

Is an early computer language definition created by a consortium of manufactures formed to build an ALGOL machine after the ALGOL meeting in Copenhagen in 1958.

["The conceptual ALCOR machine had two stacks which were used for expression parsing and evaluation"]

ALCOR included an early "standard" character set for representing ALGOL 58 code on paper and paper tape:

http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/DWcodes.html#A001
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/5tape.html#alcor

The character set included the unusual "᛭" ([iron/runic cross]) character and the "₁₀" (subscript/lower 10) character.

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