Oh yeah. Now I remember where that 72 characters came in. Fortran
programmers and punch cards. Ah, those were the days.
bp
<part-15@SkylineBroadbandService>
On 11/19/2014 9:51 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
Sounds like a carryover from punch cards. 80 columns but only the
first 72 were used, the remainder could be used for sequence numbers.
I remember FORTRAN IV programs with labels in columns 1-5 and column 6
was the continuation column, 7-72 were used, 73-80 ignored.
*From:* Bill Prince via Af <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:28 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Text width
They were typically 80 characters wide, but it was common to limit
actual text to 72 characters.
bp
<part-15@SkylineBroadbandService>
On 11/19/2014 8:51 AM, Chuck McCown via Af wrote:
How many columns wide did the old TTL dos monitors display? 80?
I am writing some C# code and I want to use my old commenting format
but I don’t remember the page widths I used back in the day.
