He has the LCC compiler working on the Gigatron. This is technically a C compiler for a computer without a CPU, or a computer that is entirely CPU. Either way you look at it, this is impressive.

Computers don't understand English or even programming languages. What's needed is translation software, and it comes in different forms: compilers, interpreters and bytecode.

ALGO was a compiling system that automatically translated algebraic statements into machine language for the Bendix G-15 computer. This brochure is the 1960 operating manual for the compiler.