Piece of classic FORTRAN code

From: Jgzabol_at_aol.com <(Jgzabol_at_aol.com)>
Date: Tue Feb 9 11:14:25 1999

Richard Erlacher wrote::

<< Golly! That does bring back the memories . . . but wasn't the CDC6xxx
 family 64 bits? I cut my teeth on that one, back in the mid 1960's and it
 seems that it (the 6600) was a dual-processor version of the 64-bit 6400.
 
     The CDC 6400, 6600, 7600 all were 60 bit, definitely.
      The Cray-1 is the first 64-bit machine in the Seymour Cray line.

 Those were the days . . . FORTRAN-II, SCOPE OS, COMPASS assembler . . .
 batch processing . . . (that meant you wrote your code on a 24-line
 80-column "coding sheet" and, when finished, gave them to a woman behind a
 door with a small window in it . . . and got your error listing a few days
 later) . . . I'd have given a week's pay for an hour in that room behind
 the door . . . mini-skirts . . . (you do remember keypunch operators and
 Hollerith cards, don't you?)
  
 Dick >>
    It does bring back memories !
John G. Zabolitzky
Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 11:14:25 GMT