My first Fortran program was a tool I wrote to read 8" SS/SD CP/M floppies on a minicomputer. That was very easy to do, as the dialect had a couple of useful s

My first Fortran program was a tool I wrote to read 8" SS/SD CP/M floppies on a minicomputer. That was very easy to do, as the dialect had a couple of useful string extensions and the operating system had efficient ways of reading a floppy.