[ale] Us Old Fossils :)

[Kenneth W Cochran]

I Yield To The Man With Fortran A/1620...  Got me beat...  :)

And the "tools" we have nowadays are a far far cry from Where We
Were (as both industry/profession & people/culture) back then...

-kc

>From: "Gary Maltzen" <maltzen at mm.com>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Us Old Fossils :)
>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:28:15 -0500
>
>OK, OK, I give: I wrote "Fortran A" programs on an IBM 1620...
>after first learning to wire (program) a 409 calculating printer...
>
>I got involved too late for the (*IAC) tube-based systems
>
>Long way from writing OO (Smalltalk, C++, Java) code...
>
>> Actually, my first programming course at Tech involved FORTAN IV
>> and punch cards (024 AND 026).  This wasn't programming on the bare metal,
>> but it was pretty primitive by today's standards.
>>
>> The first time I flubbed a key at an interactive terminal, and
>> the OS responded with "ILLEGAL CONTROL CARD" (yes, they all yelled in
>> that day), I just *knew* that someone was about to come and arrest me....
>> Ah, the Cyber.
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