[GreenKeys] Bletchley Park...FORTRAN

Craig Sawyers c.sawyers at tech-enterprise.com
Wed Mar 4 02:56:04 EST 2009


> FORTRAN.  What version is it up to these days?

Ah, Fortran.  I used FORTRAN 66 (and later 77) and ALGOL 68 at university.
That kind of dates me.  And yes, I programmed using punch cards.  You used
to see folks walking around with huge trays of many hundreds of these things
on their way to computer reception.  The ICL machine had a 32k core store.
If you thought you needed more than 16k for your run you had to supply an
authorisation letter from your supervisor.

Ah - happy days.  Not ;-)

Craig



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