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Please congratulate me
This month marks my fifty years in programming computers.
May 1967.
FORTRAN II on an IBM 1620 at the University of Western Australia.
(Later on I found and purchased a copy of Daniel D. McCracken's book)
Punched cards.
No printing on the output.
No printers.
This means I am noe entring my fifty-first year of maiking the moost appauling errours and mithtakes.
May 1967.
FORTRAN II on an IBM 1620 at the University of Western Australia.
(Later on I found and purchased a copy of Daniel D. McCracken's book)
Punched cards.
No printing on the output.
No printers.
This means I am noe entring my fifty-first year of maiking the moost appauling errours and mithtakes.
By definition, educating the client is the consultant’s first objective
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Re: Please congratulate me
Congrathulations Chriis
Regards,
Rudi
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You mean you managed to miss COBOL, ALGOL, BAL, and PL/1?
Oh, I forgot to mention PASCAL.
Oh, I forgot to mention PASCAL.
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Thamks, I thimk ...HansV wrote:Congratulations, Chris! (Or should that be Chrith?)
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nanks Rudii (both of you)Rudi wrote:Congrathulations Chriis
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I have just hoiked out from a bookcase my copy ofChrisGreaves wrote:This month marks my fifty years in programming computers.
May 1967.
FORTRAN II on an IBM 1620 at the University of Western Australia.
(Later on I found and purchased a copy of Daniel D. McCracken's book)
Daniel D. McCracken
A guide to FORTRAN IV programming
and find that it is © 1965...
John Gray
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All those except BAL came later.BobH wrote:You mean you managed to miss COBOL, ALGOL, BAL, and PL/1? Oh, I forgot to mention PASCAL.
However YOU missed out Macro-6, Macro-X, Plasyd, PsFul, PLAN, ....
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I'm Sure.John Gray wrote:I have just hoiked out from a bookcase my copy of Daniel D. McCracken A guide to FORTRAN IV programming and find that it is © 1965...
But ***I*** was in Western Australia and all the bookshop had was FORTRAN II.
(I'm pretty sure that the book was "II"; I know the 1620 had a "II" compiler")
Cheers
Chris
P.S. I also bought his Algol, COBOL later on ...
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You are right - his previous (and lesser) manual was on FORTRAN II.
I don't think this supported the delights of Object-Time FORMATs.
How times have changed, eh?!
I don't think this supported the delights of Object-Time FORMATs.
How times have changed, eh?!
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Everyone seems to forget COOGAN, FILLINON AND ZAPITTOME? (ver. II & III )
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When did they do away with Run-timeJohn Gray wrote:... the delights of Object-Time FORMATs....
Or for that matter flee-time
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Alan, what did your 360/67 run?
Newcastle University (UK!) ran the Michigan Terminal System (MTS) which was a fairly decent time-sharing service for the time with IBM 2260 (and other) terminals. It used a 4 MB [yes!] IBM 2301 drum for paging - this had to be started about 5-15 minutes before the main machine, so that it could warm up and have the rotating drum expand ever-so-slightly towards the fixed read/write heads! We learned AlgolW and BAL, and even had a bod from IBM come in to teach a course on systems analysis.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...
Newcastle University (UK!) ran the Michigan Terminal System (MTS) which was a fairly decent time-sharing service for the time with IBM 2260 (and other) terminals. It used a 4 MB [yes!] IBM 2301 drum for paging - this had to be started about 5-15 minutes before the main machine, so that it could warm up and have the rotating drum expand ever-so-slightly towards the fixed read/write heads! We learned AlgolW and BAL, and even had a bod from IBM come in to teach a course on systems analysis.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...
John Gray
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I'm afraid I don't know that level of detail John. I was just a kid "flying blind" with this amazing toy I had access to. Lots of monkey-see -> monkey-do. But you did remind me that, back then, CPU time cost about US$2/minute. Our family was in Washington state then, when a family-sized pumpkin pie cost 20¢ from the supermarket!
Nostalgia ... it's been around for as long as I can remember.
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Nostalgia ... it's been around for as long as I can remember.
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Congratulations Chris Greaves!!!
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Alan, please do not mention that O/s again.AlanMiller wrote:... a nice dose of JCL.
I was just beginning to enjoy life again, and you've gone and ruined it!
(If I recall, versions of JCL in the 60/70s allowed one to allocate physical areas of disk drives to one's files, and it was just too bad fr other user5s if you screwed up the track and/or sectpr numbers ...)
(signed) "OverDOSed" of Toronto
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Oh how I remember those fun days of muddling through cryptic Job Control Language statements to run my simulations. We had a little Fortran based program called CSMP, Continuous System Modeling Program, that I had fun with. So good in fact that my manager had to call me in and ask why I had used 2 HOURS of CPU time on our 370's and 303X's in the past month. Most jobs ran in under 3 seconds or so. Seems his budget didn't account for people actually simulating all the variables in a Monte Carlo systems analysis. <sigh>
Things got much nicer when I got away from the mainframe that used CMS/SPF and moved to VM/360 and REXX! Mike Cowlishaw quickly became our hero when he published that language.
Things got much nicer when I got away from the mainframe that used CMS/SPF and moved to VM/360 and REXX! Mike Cowlishaw quickly became our hero when he published that language.
PJ in (usually sunny) FL
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I congratulate you Chris. Did you celebrate by eating a tub of ice cream? You should have!ChrisGreaves wrote:This month marks my fifty years in programming computers.
May 1967.
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Yep. Should we call up Sea Salt Caramel again?Skitterbug wrote:I congratulate you Chris. Did you celebrate by eating a tub of ice cream? You should have!ChrisGreaves wrote:This month marks my fifty years in programming computers.
May 1967.
Regards,
Rudi
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Rudi
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