Subj : Re: COBOL for Beginners
To   : smartyhall
From : Dr. What
Date : Sun Dec 08 2019 08:07 pm

-=> smartyhall wrote to Grease <=-

sm> EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal

I always thought it stood for "Erase Backup, Chew Disk, Ignite Cards".  For
obvious reasons, only IBM used it.  8)

sm> I really should give FORTRAN another go. In any case, I long to one day
sm> have enough room for a card punch of my verry own. I've just about
sm> given up on my childhood dream of owning a fully-functional UNIVAC with
sm> drum storage though.

You keep giving me ideas.  Stop it.

I lucked out today and the RS-232 HAT I purchased worked like a charm and I was
able to connect my VT-320 terminal to one of my Raspberry PIs.  I have a little
configuring to do (install curses) to play my terminal games.

But now I was to write some FORTRAN just for fun.

I already got the CBM BASIC interpreter running on it.  Not quite like a
PET/C64, but pretty close.


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