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.
We lived a couple of blocks from the old city golf course which became part of
TCU. TCU was run by my Dad's denomination,
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Alan Ackerman
alan.acker...@earthlink.netwrote:
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