Re: Hey, guys, what's first program have you learnt?


"Walter Banks" <walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Bruce C. Baker" wrote:

Fortran II D on an IBM 1620, circa 1967. Now using (and still learning)
C#.

Ohh the memories of that machine same time frame. Real front panels
with lots of blinking lights. Those were the days when you could start
a run and leisurely go to the cafeteria for dinner and expect results
shortly
after you returned.

My first experience was around ten years later at college. Sets of stylish
tall cabinets with arrays of flashing lights near the top (decsystem-10).

Not hands-on though, you could only see this stuff through the glass wall of
the control room. To use the machine you had to book time on a terminal
(usually an asr33), where you keyed in programs in algol60, cobol, fortran,
or, for the intrepid, macro-10.

And if you walked past the computer room and the lights weren't flashing,
that meant trouble.

--
Bartc



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