21 Mar
2007
21 Mar
'07
7:37 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
But maybe not--even the lowly IBM 1620 with 20K digits
(not bytes--a
character took 2 digits) of core and no disk drive would compile
FORTRAN.
...
That's pretty impressive. I wonder which machine would take the prize for the
most done with so little? It's quite amazing how much could be squeezed out of
some of these old systems...