About programing, a general question

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

There's also a copy of that story at FOLDOC.  The first computer I ever
> programmed was an IBM 1620, Mod 2, with 20,000 individually addressable
> BCD digits, already obsolete in the late '60s when I first encountered
> it.  We started out with machine language, eventually graduating to
> Assembler and FORTRAN II.  I have fond memories of using an IBM 024 and
> found the concept of "cardimages" intuitive.  Now, of course, people
> find it hard to wrap their minds around the idea even after you explain
> it.  BTW, both Dan and Jerry also cut their teeth on the 1620.
>


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.


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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
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