On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: There's also a copy of that story at FOLDOC. The first computer I ever > programmed was an IBM 1620, Mod 2, with 20,000 individually addressable > BCD digits, already obsolete in the late '60s when I first encountered > it. We started out with machine language, eventually graduating to > Assembler and FORTRAN II. I have fond memories of using an IBM 024 and > found the concept of "cardimages" intuitive. Now, of course, people > find it hard to wrap their minds around the idea even after you explain > it. BTW, both Dan and Jerry also cut their teeth on the 1620. >
One thing I have seen is that everyone has at some stage of his life used or learned Fortran in any way, that I saw for sure. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia
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