Quoting Gerry Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Wed 25 Jun 2008
06:49:34 PM PDT:
His boss wrote fortran on OS/360 (and liked it!). WatFOR, WatFIV, IBM
FORT-G and FORT-H, with intermediate step manual optimization.
atmospheric models and radar propagation models, plus a few system
hacks (how high can the paper arch coming out of the line printer at
full-rate pate-eject?).
no, no, no.. it's two other printer games... if you overprint a line
of underscores, can you get the paper to break (royally POing the
operators)
or, what sequence of characters if printed cause all the hammers to
hit simultaneously on the chain making the printer move around.
Actually, there's a great pleasure in coding for a mainframe of that
era.. you really own the machine...
Jim
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