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Very cool! It warms my heart that a few of you will keep some of these vintage machines alive. I’m guessing there’s FORTRAN on there somewhere. Curious what you
by rshphx 4y ago
Very cool! It warms my heart that a few of you will keep some of these vintage machines alive. I’m guessing there’s FORTRAN on there somewhere. Curious what you paid for it?
- jacquesm 4y agoMostly RPG rather than scientific computing, though you could get COBOL, FORTRAN and of course an assembler. 500 KIPS and very small RAM so likely those compilers were multiple passes and required a disc.
- macjohnmcc 4y agoI did RPG II programming on the successor machine the S/36 for a few years. That was available in a micro form not bigger than a PC to mid and full size.
- russh 4y agoI still have nightmares of modifying old indicator infested RPG II spaghetti code for a local hospital to create magnetic tape versions of UB52 and form 1500’s.
- macjohnmcc 4y agoI don't know if I would remember enough to be able to read an RPG program nor would I recognize RPG III and newer. We did use a third-party app that gave us RPG 2.5 where I worked last doing RPG. I still have 8" floppy disks with utilities I wrote at the time and the Pop editor.