[NJARC] more FORTRAN

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Rob,

  RPI wasn't alone. After I left the Air Force and restarted at FDU in Teaneck (1977) we used an HP 3000(?) minicomputer and Fortan 77. The data was entered via model 33 teletype machines spitting out paper tape. Typos on paper tape could consume lots of time trying to correct them. But in some ways it was a step up from the PDP-8 assembler I previously toggled in by hand (BTW the PDP-8 had a great Space Invaders game output to a Tek scope). I would suggest the array processing was FORTRANs strength - if you needed it.

  I had trouble learning FORTRAN from our professors. Then I found a book called "A FORTRAN Coloring Book" by Dr. Kaufman. It was humorous, full of examples, got me through that class and I still have the book. For those interested, book cover scans at http://tinyurl.com/35wap9 and http://tinyurl.com/399ozl .

  Rich Skoba
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From: "Robert Flory" <robandpj at earthlink.net>
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> Maybe RPI was a bit backwards in 1980 when I was punching cards.
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> The year before in high school I was writing OSCAR satellite tracking
> programs on a TRS-80  (Trash 80) in BASIC. From the time I left RPI to the
> time that I graduated from Stockton, the little computer work I did was
> also BASIC, for logging radio telescope data.
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> In 1985 was back onto FORTRAN again, but on a 286 machine(I think), doing
> the number crunching that it did so well, trying to fit photovoltaic panel
> data into a mathematical model.
> 
> Now the computer is just a word processor, archive,  and communications
> apparatus.
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