Are you sure it wasn't because FORTRAN's originator was exactly six feet tall (six feet = 72 inches), and had a Procrustean streak?
| "Ken Cornetet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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That's why FORTRAN compilers (real ones, not the newfangled stuff) stop reading at column 72 - you sequentially number your cards starting in column 73. Drop you deck? No problem, just run them through a sorter!
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:11 AM
To: Beau E. Cox
Cc: $Bill Luebkert; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...
worse than that--dropping the card stack you spent all morning punching in.....
| "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/2005 20:16 | To: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[email protected]> cc: Subject: Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making... |
Hi $Bill Luebkert -
At 2005-11-18, 14:58:08 you wrote:
>Roger A. Shepherd wrote:
>
>>
>> Try this -- Litton L-3050 with a 16 bit boot register that you set manually
>> with 16 buttons each the size of your thumbprint. The Army bought the
>> hardware 15 years before the development effort got units into the field in
>> 1982.
>>
>> The good old days?
>
>Hardly - clearing core by toggling in the instructions on the front
>panel of an IBM/360 in 1968.
>
- or entering the IPL code ( 32 instructions ) on the front panel of an IBM 3044
at the MIT lab for Nuclear Sicence data center in 1964...and making a boo-boo...
OLD PROGRAMMERS UNITE!!! WE'RE NOT DONE KICKING BUTT YET!!! :) :)
Aloha => Beau;
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