Fortran Coding Form Pads...

From: Louis Florit <florit_at_unixville.com>
Date: Wed Jul 31 00:05:00 2002

Yes, they are 80x24. I plan to scan one of them for netposterity. :)
Will post link when I get it done.

Anyone know where the genesis of 80x24/40x24 screen dimensions (and quite
a few other devices) has its origination in? I remember my old dot matrix
epson used to be 80 columns wide, and most of the older 8 bit computers
had 40 or 80 cols by 24 or 25 rows. "But why?" he cried...

Regards,
Louis



From: "Richard Erlacher" <edick_at_idcomm.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Fortran Coding Form Pads...
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:45:07 -0600
Organization: Erlacher Associates
Reply-To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org

Are these the ones with 24 lines of 80 columns? Several major vendors
modeled their coding forms after the U.S. military coding forms,
presumably cooked up by the Navy. I've only seen the blue ones, (blue
lines) which I presume were patterned after the USAF ones. They worked
great for coding when the work product was going to that huge room full of
mini-skirted (back then) keypunch operators. (I'd have given a week's
pay for a couple of hours hours to fish around in that room ... <sigh> ...
)

I did, BTW, code in Fortran back then.

Dick
Received on Wed Jul 31 2002 - 00:05:00 BST