On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:32:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > hendrik writes: > > Before that, an IBM 1620... > > Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it > but submit FORTRAN decks, though.
It was actually a Bendix G15d I started on -- the machine with a magnetic drum as both main memory and registers. The IBM 1620 was a big improvement -- it could actually use *letters* as data, instead of just digits (and u,v,w,x,y,x to make hexadecimal). -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
