OT: TCU in Fort Worth

2011-09-15 Thread Alan Ackerman
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,

Re: OT: TCU in Fort Worth

2011-09-15 Thread Henry Schaffer
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