On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:49:48 -0600, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>quoth the Wayne Brehaut: > >> (I started with Royal McBee LGP 30 machine language (hex input) in >> 1958, and their ACT IV assembler later! Then FORTRAN IV in 1965. By >> 1967 I too was using (Burroughs) Algol-60, and 10 years later upgraded >> to (DEC-10) Simula-67.) >> >> Going---going--- > >Mel? Is that you? > >http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html > Ha-ha! Thanks for that! Although I'm not Mel, the first program I saw running on the LGP-30 was his Blackjack program! In 1958 I took a Numerical Methods course at the University of Saskatchewan, and we got to program Newton's forward difference method for the LGP-30. Our "computer centre tour" was to the attic of the Physics building, where their LGP-30 was networked to a similar one at the Univeristy of Toronto (the first educational computer network in Canada!), and the operator played a few hands of Blackjack with the operator there to illustrate how useful computers could be. A few years later, as a telecommunications officer in the RCAF, I helped design (but never got to teach :-( ) a course in LGP-30 architecture and programming using both ML and ACT IV AL, complete with paper tape input and Charactron Tube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charactron) output--handy, since this display was also used in the SAGE system. We weren't encouraged to use card games as examples, so used navigational and tracking problems involving fairly simple trigonometry. wwwayne >-d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
