News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961).

Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by RachelF on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:19AM (#31566622)
Impressive page layout for a paper from 1961!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by buescher on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:23AM (#31568269)
It's a printed manual. They did have typesetting back then. I like the wide margins with subheadings in them. I bet a lot of copies got written in.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by pmcjones on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:25PM (#31676962)
It was probably typeset by typing it on an IBM Executive typewriters which had proportional spacing and a carbon ribbon.
[ Parent | on HN ]