24 Mar
2007
24 Mar
'07
2:24 p.m.
Written by Tom Watson, tsw at johana.com
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:20:51 -0700, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
We have a winner.
Just to add to the trivia, to boot the disk you needed a few more characters:
3400032007013600032007024902402111963611300102
Which if you were on a model 2, you needed to make sure that indirect
addressing was turned on (nothing worked right if you didn't!).
After doing that a few times, you remembered it pretty well.
(Stuff deleted)
On 22 Mar
2007 at 14:59, Steve Wilson wrote:
Isn't 00796 where all-well-behaved programs went to die? I.e. reload
Monitor (sort of a CALL EXIT)?
--Chuck 4900796 (Somebody will understand this reference)
Someone is trying to boot Fortran off of the Disk on an IBM 1620 me thinks Tom Watson
tsw at johana.com
So Tom,
Do I at least get partial credit for knowing it was from the IBM1620? A
friend of mine told me that sequence 30 years ago - and along the way I got
confused as to the function. (I know - excuses excuses ;-) I can 't explain
why I'm carrying around that data in my head either... I only programmed in
GoTran twice, i.e. hands-on a 1620 that many times back in the 1970's at Oxy
College in Pasadena on the weekends. A high school buddy was the true Guru in
1620 Machine language. As for the IBM1130 - I've only programmed on one of
those in Fortran IV once (though my college buddy Bob seems to have one he is
trying to ressurect - http://www.dvq.com/1130/1130.htm)
Steve Wilson