[inforoots] 1130 Memories

[Brian Knittel]

On 31 Oct 2006 at 10:25, Michael Albaugh wrote:

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> 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.
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>    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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