On 30/05/2021 11.52, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2021, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Please excuse my long-winded description of a FORTRAN IV bug in an lake > ecosystem energy model I wrote at the University of Illinois in the early > 1970s. It is an example of what you wrote above. > > The program fill two boxes of 80-column Hollerith cards punched on an IBM > 29 (if I correctly recall the model) keypuch machine. The output was > written > on green-barred wide paper on a line printer. We always referred to it as an "oh-two-nine" ("029"). Quite why the more pedantic didn't demand it be "zero-two-nine" is anybody's guess. Herewith some history (aka 'blast from the past') together with an ironic photo showing an 029 alongside a lab of (DEC) VT-100 terminals - several generations of input-device apart: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/029.html Those were the days... -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list