6 Dec
2002
6 Dec
'02
11:25 a.m.
"Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink(a)verizon.net> wrote:
In high school, we used what I think was called
_The_FORTRAN_Coloring_Book_
(wasn't that what it was called Frank?). That's not the same thing is it?
No, that's a different book from _FORTRAN For Humans_.
Funny, I only remember boring data processing text books, like the one
that told us how to use a keypunch and how to interpret punched cards,
an important skill when I got to U of Maryland and found that the 029
keypunches in the basement of the CS building often did not have fresh
ribbons. (Bill and I attended the same high school, where there was
an HP 3000 Series II (upgraded to a Series III in 1980 I think) for
administrative and academic use.)
But then I might not have paid a FORTRAN text much attention, having
picked that up when we were supposed to be learning BASIC and being
more interested at that time in SPL/3000.
-Frank McConnell