mckie@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William McKie) (08/20/90)
Random ramblings on FORTRAN-II: I believe it was FORTRAN-II on an IBM-1130 that I used in 1972 (at a lab in the eastern Washington desert). It supported nifty features like direct access record i/o, and a run-time trace facility which could track the changing values of variables & the flow of control through the program, generating large stacks of printer paper. There was a nice calcomp plotter attached. It was a hands-on machine (not kept inside a glass cage) and one could interact with one's FORTRAN-II program from the system console typewriter. I remember that FORTRAN-II source code tended to have lots of statement labels in the left part of source code listings, as there was no logical IF statement, and the 3-way arithmetic if was used instead. I don't remember there being a PROGRAM statement in FORTRAN-II. Bill McKie NASA Ames mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov