Resurrecting Fortran

Re:Resurrecting Fortran by GnarfGnarf on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:23PM (#26448653)

My first language, 1965, on a CDC 3100. We used Eliot Organick`s text book. Wonderful memories.

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Re:Resurrecting Fortran by wrycoder on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:19PM (#26449618)

1964, IBM 1620, 1311 drive. McCracken text.

I remember the day the prof was late to class and came in looking much the worse for wear. The drive had experienced a head crash.

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Re:Resurrecting Fortran by gnufx on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:30PM (#26450192)

Thanks from those of us feeling relatively young for once, even if we have read McCracken.

The best failure I know was due to beer fermenting in the warm space above the fancy disk of an old Sigma 3; with hilarious consequences. No opportunity to get worse for wear from that batch, obviously.

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