[inforoots] 1130 Memories

[Michael Albaugh]

I'm intrigued. 1130 Cobol? I'd never seen it. And at the school I attended,
they would have been quite keen to be able to use teh 1130 for Cobol
instruction. Hmmm, on the other hand, there may have been a political
element. I was working on a 1401 emulator for the 1130, to replace
the use of "141" on the 1620 that the 1130 replaced, when I was
discouraged from finishing. Turf wars among the nominal "owners"
of the two machines. But anyway, do we have 1130 Cobol? I have
a legal copy of MicroFocus Cobol for my PDP-11, but running Cobol
on an (emulated) 1130 would be a hoot.

   Mike
On 10/30/06, Van Snyder <van.snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
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> When I was attending a small university, the 1130 was being phased out.
> A Varian V-73 had been bought to replace it.  Varian didn't offer Cobol,
> but the university wanted to teach Cobol.

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