Re:Creating a Christmas card on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe
by cpr on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:53AM
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I loved those 1403 printers as a high school kid working on the IBM 360/65 at the Naval Electronics Lab on Point Loma (San Diego area).
Not sure why/how they hired me for the summer to do systems hacking (lost in the mists of time), but I remember adding some feature or other to the WATFOR Fortran compiler. (Maybe some additional COMMON features?)
There was something ultimately satisfying about the fonts used and the way a finely-tuned 1403 would render characters (even lower case on special models!).
Not sure why/how they hired me for the summer to do systems hacking (lost in the mists of time), but I remember adding some feature or other to the WATFOR Fortran compiler. (Maybe some additional COMMON features?)
There was something ultimately satisfying about the fonts used and the way a finely-tuned 1403 would render characters (even lower case on special models!).