11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
9:30 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, woodelf wrote:
I was looking for Fortran IV programs and got reading
on the History of
FORTRAN.
In 1957 they could not punch out the 2,000 binary cards of FORTRAN II
and had to go tape instead.
Now that is about 72*12 bits per card ... you work out the math.
"could not punch out 2,000 binary cards"????
I've punched many decks much larger than that.
(DP of Office of Civil Rights, Space Sciences Data Center at GSFC)
You CAN refill the supply
and empty the output without stopping the punch.
But,..
tape certainly is HANDY when you are talking about more than a box of
cards.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com