OK, I can't resist any longer.
On 4/26/21 at 11:33 AM, [email protected] (SteveL) wrote:
Who carried around a CRC book of tables of various calculations in lieu of an
unaffordable scientific calculator?
Yup.
Or programming FORTRAN on punch cards?
Yup. At first on a IBM 650 with a 4 pass compiler, intermediate
storage on punch cards.
Or PDP-8 on paper tape after toggling in the boot loader through the front
panel switches?
Sorry, mine was a Varian 620/i (8K of 16 bit words) used for
nodes in a circuit switched data network (Tymnet). :-)
73 Bill AE6JV
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