Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by MattHeffron 938 days ago
Beckman Instruments got our Xerox 1108 in 1983 (and an 1186 a couple of years later). We developed Expert System commercial products in Interlisp-D but ported them to run on the PC (DOS) using the Gold Hill Common Lisp.

That was a wonderful environment to develop on. So, I'm now working on the Medley Interlisp Project!

SpinPro™ designs optimal ultracentrifugation procedures (for biology research) (Beckman manufactures and sells ultracentrifuge instruments.) SpinPro had issues with marketing, with few customers.

PepPro™ designs chemical procedures to synthesize custom peptides (small proteins). PepPro was essentially completed when Beckman Instruments dropped their entire Peptide Synthesis product line. (The PepPro user manual was in final review.)

SpinPro https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bk-1986-0306.ch023

PepPro https://cdn.aaai.org/IAAI/1989/IAAI89-010.pdf