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Article #6583Re: *66, *68, *77, etc...
From: Tom Ohmer
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 19:58
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 19:58
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From article <1479@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>, by fenske@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Robert Fenske Jr):
>
> Wasn't there an Algol60 ? And I don't know of any Fortran earlier than
> '66. And wasn't there some Cobol standard before '74? (This is "ancient
> history" as far as computers go!)
In 1970 I learned COBOL B, COBOL D, and COBOL H on a Honeywell H-200. It had
a drum printer, card reader, teletype console, sense switches, card punch,
4 (noisy) tape drives, and 16k of memory. Took almost a half hour to compile
a modestly complex program. We (Erie County, PA Technical School class of
'72) were excited when we upgraded to 28k and a (removable platter) disk
drive. Yeah, ancient history, alright! :-)
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