I was there too, Seth. I believe it was FORTRAN IV. If you went to the computer center at about 01:00 the punch-card reader was incredibly fast. During the day, with all the time-sharing (even with the VA), the reader was slower than my mind is, now. Dave On Mar 8, 2013, at 8:13 AM, Seth Jarvis <SJarvis@slco.org> wrote:
Well if you're going to be that way about it...
FORTRAN, Univac 1108, stacks of punch cards, got your results from the I/O room, U of U MEB >1974<.
Seth
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 6:56 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Times-a-changin (Was: Star Rover for iOS)
I did my first programming on a UNIVAC 1108. It occupied an entire room at Merrill Engineering at the U. 1976. Basic and Fortran. On punch cards. Computers didn't fit on desk tops in those days.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
Ah, you kids and your toys.
My Commodore 64 that I taught myself assembly language on in 82-83 is still working. Used it up into my first year of college when I started using the UNIX workstations. Although I did use it (and 2 others I had acquired by then) my junior year as part of a parallel programming course in CS and a hardware course in EE.
(Granted, assembly isn't a big deal on a 6510 chip, but I was pretty proud of myself)
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