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Sleeping Dog:
When we took the class in 1968, they were shuffling all of their data from the vacuum tube computer to a new IBM mainframe on an upper floor that used a tape drive system with an air brake (WOW). That is why we could get "Time" on their computer late at night.
I doubt if much documentation about the class exists at my high school because back then, few people had heard of or even cared about computers.
The bank has changed ownership at least four times that I know of in the last 34 years and I doubt that anyone there remembers the old machine, much less, cares or would want to admit it. However, I will ask around. There may be some old fart in a nursing home somewhere who would love to talk about it. If so, I will take a video cam with me. Historical stuff like this should not be lost forever.
Sleeping Dog
voidmain:
Yeah, I programmed FORTRAN on the IBM 3090. It was water cooled, we had over 100,000 9-track 1/2" tapes. A huge room full of disk drives. The drives were oil filled and I believe held around 360MB of data, but the cabinets were about 6 feet tall by 2 feet wide by about 4 feet deep. But, the thing could process some data!
I was more interested in the language that you said you used. I had never heard of it and like I said, I had heard FORTRAN was developed from scratch, not derived from another language.
Sleeping Dog:
Considering the time frame and the very few people who were really working on this stuff back then, ITTRAN may have been mutually exclusive to a manufactuer. You have made me want to set the Wayback Machine and detail this experience in more detail.
My most vivid memory of the "commputer tech's" there at the time was that they looked like they had been crawling around under my car. (nasty)
Most of the commands were FORTRAN'ish but there were some stop codes that were a bit quirky. Hey....that was a long time ago on a planet far, far away.
I will still try to investigate the past. You have tweaked my curiosity about what they tried to teach to us.
SD
lazygamer:
Sleeping Dog, you took this shit in High school?! Geez some people here are old, im still just off the skateboard. Although im too heavy to use a skateboard correctly. That's for those tiny guys. ;)
Oh and Linux on C64? If you got one hanging around then go put Newcomer on it. www.newcomer.hu
WaWAR_FA:
what about babbage?
he had a pre-computer back in like 1884.
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