I didn't know the 1130 even had BASIC. PSU had FORTRAN, Ratfor, Cobol, Algol, asm and APL, I trashed the console printer with the broken APL ball. IBM guy schooled me, Kindly.. Also totaled the reader/punch with a clowns staple and a card knife self help attempt. BOFH.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2025-12-17 1:07 a.m., Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025, Jim Davis wrote: > >> Do you need a formatter tool if you want to cross from IBM to DEC rp03? > >> The 1130 had one, 5 fixed / 5 removable. Ran hundreds of Fortran and > >> programming jobs every day. > > > > A 2315 cartridge has only one platter, used in the 2310 disk drive, the > > forerunner of many similar drives like the RK05 from DEC. > > > > Christian > Who knows what vintage software can be found on said disks. > A evil one could contain BASIC and a star trek program for the IBM 1130 > console. Ben. > >
