Re: Fortran (Was Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration) (Resubmitting without attachment)

2020-03-30 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: I was preparing to make the leap and buy my first personal computer--a PDP-8/E back in the day. The attraction was not just the low price of around $5000, but the fact that there was FORTRAN available for it. DEC made a big deal of that in

Re: Fortran (Was Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration) (Resubmitting without attachment)

2020-03-30 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
I was preparing to make the leap and buy my first personal computer--a PDP-8/E back in the day. The attraction was not just the low price of around $5000, but the fact that there was FORTRAN available for it. DEC made a big deal of that in their promotions. Wrote an emulator for it (in

Re: Fortran (Was Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration) (Resubmitting without attachment)

2020-03-30 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Since we are all at home exchanging stories, I thought I would regale you with my best punch card one: My first job out of school was at Bell Canada in  Downtown Toronto. I was trained as an FE on their Univac 418 II systems that ran a Canada-wide store-and-forward MSDS - Message Switching

Re: Fortran (Was Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration)

2020-03-30 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Since we are all at home exchanging stories, I thought I would regale you with my best punch card one: My first job out of school was at Bell Canada in  Downtown Toronto. I was trained as an FE on their Univac 418 II systems that ran a Canada-wide store-and-forward MSDS - Message Switching

Re: Fortran (Was Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration)

2020-03-30 Thread Diane Bruce via cctalk
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:31:56AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 8:13 AM Diane Bruce wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:33:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 5:10 PM Diane Bruce via cctalk < > > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > ...