tructions on a mechanical drum computer so
they'll never understand the sequencing and timing like we do."
-Adam
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drum computer so
they'll never understand the sequencing and timing like we do."
-Adam
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Oh yeah. My fir
: [AFMUG] OT Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
I programmed the first computers I worked on in binary. You would
fat-finger instructions in through the front console, one bit at a time.
bp
On 5/3/2024 10:12 AM, Larry Smith via AF wrote:
On Fri May 3 2024 11:37, Chuck McCown via AF
es.
First computer I ever touched and played with was a terminal connected
to a mainframe somewhere in a science museum in Oregon. It had a moon
lander simulator on it.
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Yeah Ken - same here. WATFIV (WATerloo Fortran IV) - punch cards - stacks
and stacks . . .
Ohio University - turnaround time was overnight . . . .
Dave
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:29 PM Ken Hohhof wrote:
> Haha, I see in my bookshelf a Fortran 90 book and a CD for DIGITAL Visual
> Fortran. I
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I programmed the first computers I worked on in binary. You would
fat-finger instructions in through the front console, one bit at a time.
bp
On 5/3
Some things we think as "new" aren't so new.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/telemedicine-predicted-in-1925-124140
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I programmed the first computers I worked on in binary. You would
fat-finger instructions in through the front console, one bit at a time.
bp
On 5/3/2024 10:12 AM, Larry Smith via AF wrote:
On Fri May 3 2024 11:37, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
At least I am not older than FORmula TRANslation
Haha, I see in my bookshelf a Fortran 90 book and a CD for DIGITAL Visual
Fortran. I think it was Fortran IV that we used in school, had to submit
decks of punch cards and wait for the printout. You learned to code
carefully when the turnaround time was several hours.
From: AF On Behalf Of
On Fri May 3 2024 11:37, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
> At least I am not older than FORmula TRANslation or Common Business
> Oriented Language.
Hmmm, I programmed in both
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Larry Smith
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