<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Joe Zeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us">joe@zeff.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
There's also a copy of that story at FOLDOC. The first computer I ever<br>
programmed was an IBM 1620, Mod 2, with 20,000 individually addressable<br>
BCD digits, already obsolete in the late '60s when I first encountered<br>
it. We started out with machine language, eventually graduating to<br>
Assembler and FORTRAN II. I have fond memories of using an IBM 024 and<br>
found the concept of "cardimages" intuitive. Now, of course, people<br>
find it hard to wrap their minds around the idea even after you explain<br>
it. BTW, both Dan and Jerry also cut their teeth on the 1620.<br>
<div><div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>One thing I have seen is that everyone has at some stage of his life used or learned Fortran in any way, that I saw for sure.<br><br><br>-- <br><br>Regards,<br>Parshwa Murdia<br>