On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Alan Ackerman <alan.acker...@earthlink.net>wrote:
> Small world: I learned FORTRAN when I was in high school, using TCU's > IBM1620. We used a keypunch and punched cards, though, no terminals or paper > tape were available. > Did you know that the 1620 did arithmetic by table lookup - and it stored the tables in RAM - so you had to load the tables each time it was turned on. One could load octal tables and then it did octal arithmetic! --henry schaffer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
