[GreenKeys] Bletchley Park...FORTRAN & PUNCH CARDS

[Steve Schlink]

And being amongst the seriously insane, I actually still have an IBM 026 
keypunch (including drum) in storage.

Steve

At 07:56 AM 3/4/2009 +0000, Craig Sawyers wrote:
> > 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