Let's Have a Funny Pic Thread! Mk IX

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GomezAddams said:
I learned to program in FORTRAN on punched cards. Interesting bit of trivia: FORTRAN only reads the first 72 characters of a line because characters 73 - 80 are reserved so that you can set your keypunch machine to punch auto-incrementing numbers (100, 200, etc) in those columns so that if you drop your card deck, you can just pop them in a card sorter, sort on those columns, and get your card deck back in proper order.
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Yep, count me in as one who learned FORTRAN language in college. At the time (1976), it was considered the scientific language. At the end of the course, there was a brief introduction to BASIC. It was noted that desktop personal computers would most likely run on BASIC. This back when the university still had huge computers in rooms that required their own air conditioning, just to keep the computers cool. Desktop computers? Really?
 
Stratguy said:
Yep, count me in as one who learned FORTRAN language in college. At the time (1976), it was considered the scientific language. At the end of the course, there was a brief introduction to BASIC. It was noted that desktop personal computers would most likely run on BASIC. This back when the university still had huge computers in rooms that required their own air conditioning, just to keep the computers cool. Desktop computers? Really?
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Only learned BASIC and some APL. I remember those days of using the university computers and old modems just to log in. Wanted to learn FORTRAN at the time but it never happened.
 
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I hate who ever felt the need to underline those.
 
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