Subj : Re: COBOL for Beginners
To : Grease
From : smartyhall
Date : Sat Dec 07 2019 04:04 am
Re: Re: COBOL for Beginners
By: Grease to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Dec 05 2019 04:25 pm
> We did FORTRAN and COBOL in high school. Back in '80. We used this big
> epsidic (sp) machine to type out our punch cards. Then we would put them in
> theis huge collator and run them through and then we would print out if what
> we did was successful.
> It never failed when you had about 100 cards for a major project and the
> machine sucks it up. Or you mistype that one letter.
> Grease
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal
a.k.a. Yet another bad idea in service of "customer retention." lol
I really should give FORTRAN another go. In any case, I long to one day have enough room for a card punch of my verry own. I've just about given up on my childhood dream of owning a fully-functional UNIVAC with drum storage though.
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