30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
11:33 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I found my old SPANTRAN program listing (SPANish iiTRAN) and scanned it.
Here it is at:
http://www.ak6dn.com/stuff/spantran.pdf
I tried OCR but it just could not grok it correctly. The listing is
circa 1970 or so from an ASR33.
On 1/30/2006 at 12:19 AM Don North wrote:
Of course not. It should be written in blood with calls to sweat
routines as necessary... :-)
Who would write Windows device drivers of their own free will anyway :-) :-)
And once I learned Perl I stopped writing in any
other language ...
except macro-11 that is .
Not to seem too flip, but the next time I need a Windows device driver, I
should write it in Perl?
I first learned to program in high school in
IITRAN running RJE paper
tapes via an ASR33 to the IIT Univac 1108...
I blame IITRAN for getting me interested in computer programming. I was an
undergrad in physics at IIT getting very bored, when I looked over the
shoulder of a classmate during a lecture and later asked him what I was
doing. I borrowed the text and finished it in an evening--that Monday I
caged a job card and wrote my own program to run on the (bright and shiny
new) 360/40. I enrolled in an introductory FORTRAN course and used it to
teach myself 360 Assembler and work my way through a supervisor dump. I
got to be persona non grata in the very small IIT computer center, but hey,
it was the 60's. There was really no program of computer study then, so
transfered to Purdue (at the expense my scholarship). My parents were
furious--my father told me that working with computers was a low-grade
clerical job that no one in his right mind would give up a career in
Physics for. Oddly, I realize that if I had a child making the same
career decision today, I'd have the same problem as my father.