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, Disc
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Alan Ackerman
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
On 9/16/11 01:48 Henry Schaffer said:
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!
... which was why it was known as the "Cad
