gottlieb@allan.ultra.nyu.edu (Allan Gottlieb) (10/05/90)
In article <27527@bellcore.bellcore.com> mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes:
Best place to look is the old bit-serial wonders like the venerable
Bendix G15
I never programmed one; just admired people who did.
Funny I didn't feel so admirable.
I attended a saturday program run by Columbia University for high
school students in 1962(+-1) and we programmed the G15 a little. I
don't remember anything about the assembly or machine language but do
remember how one ran a program written in FORTRAN. First you punched
a paper tape with your source. Then you read in the tape containing
first pass of the compiler and then your source. EVENTUALLY the
output of the first pass was punched out on paper tape. You then read
in the second pass tape and the output tape from pass one. I believe
there were several passes. At long last your answers appeared on, I
believe, a typewritter-like machine. Needless to say you desked
checked your program carefully.
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Allan Gottlieb
gottlieb@nyu.edu