On 4/21/19 7:11 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > > I was assisting an older client the other day, a former Yale prof, > and he's been programming since the late 1950s. > > He knew people who worked at Bletchley Park. He also mentioned he > knew people who had manually scribed their programs on some sort of metal > cylinder. Which computer system was that? > > Part of what he'd like me to help with is a circa 2001 Compaq / DIGITAL > version of a FORTRAN programming environment. He had not yet found > the installation media so we could try to get it running on Windows 10. > I wonder if it will...
Could this be something that uses the same technology as a drum program card on a keypunch? --Chuck