[GreenKeys] Bletchley Park...FORTRAN

[Larry DeSoto]

ROFL,

Those were the days Bob, sleeping on the 60K core memory cabinet in the 1620 
room at Tech during a marathon between-the-quarters computing session.  Do 
you remember the Sperry "solid state" computer down in EE that Root, I 
think, was trying to interface to a PDP 8?  I shared an office with a fellow 
at Bell Labs who was supposed to have been a Sperry field engineer for that 
boat anchor.  IBM made it obsolete before it ever went out the door.  It 
still makes me laugh when I think about the system clock in it that 
generated more power in the broadcast band than the local AM radio station.

:Larry DeSoto - WA5MLH

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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Bletchley Park...FORTRAN


> FORTRAN.  What version is it up to these days?  Before my all expenses 
> paid
> vacation to SE Asia I took a FORTRAN course that was required for 
> graduation.
> When I survived and came home, I had to take a FORTRAN IV course in order 
> to
> graduate.  The only difference I can actually recall between the two was 
> that
> the former got run on a 1620 and the latter on a 360.  Those were the days 
> when
> undergraduates and most grad students handed in their punched cards and 
> came
> back the next day to learn what had happened.  I graduated and didn't do
> anything further with computers until early in the PC era, going through 
> early
> Commodores, the 64 and 128, several CPM 2 and 3 machines and then into 
> 8086 and
> 80286 based machines all in the course of about two or three years (maybe 
> it was
> four years - old memories tend to compress in time).  But I never 
> encountered
> FORTRAN again.
>
> In a message dated 3/3/2009 9:46:30 PM Central Standard Time,
> chrise at pobox.com writes:
>> You code your application in C or FORTRAN
>
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