[inforoots] Fwd: Re: Fortran creator John Backus dies

[Van Snyder]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 13:30 -0700, Curtis A. Jones quoted John Judy
Turner, concerning the IBM 1620 "CADET" (Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try):
> > FORTRAN programs were "batched" three
> > times a day; students spent a lot of time "desk
> > checking" their work because they only got three
> > chances a day to try to get it to work.  Ah, those
> > were the good old days.

Even many years later, I was ecstatic to get three turn-arounds per day,
from a 7094/7044 direct-couple, or later from a Univac 1108.  I was in
seventh heaven when I got a 110-baud KSR-35 in my office.

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