> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via > cctalk > Sent: 22 April 2019 18:10 > To: John Foust via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Programming on metal cylinders? > > 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?
Music Box? Could he be confusing something with BOMBE set up? > > > > 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... Do you mean DIGITAL/Compaq FORTRAN for Windows? Or something older such as VAX Fortran which had many extensions. > > Could this be something that uses the same technology as a drum program > card on a keypunch? > > --Chuck