13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
8:05 p.m.
On Apr 13, 2017, at 9:42 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 04/13/2017 05:47 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote:
Oh the high-school had a nice ASR-33, which was used to manage our IITRAN jobs.
But they never let the students use it interactively (during my tenure!), possibly
due to the costs for CPU or IO.
The other HS in the district had their own PDP-8. Some of my (new) friends got
to play with that one.
Jerry
Then my dad got transferred to Chicago and that
high school had
?access? to IITRAN. By access, that meant punching cards, and
waiting for the teacher to load in batch and waiting for the results.
Losing the interactive aspect overshadowed the language features.
To be fair, many Chicago-area high schools did have interactive (TTY)
access in the 60s to IITRAN. IITRAN TTY access extended far beyond the
Chicago area.
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-iitran-1899.html
Not a bad language for the time. Probably better than BASIC.
--Chuck