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   From: TimSlattery@utexas.edu   
      
   Marion  wrote:   
      
   >On 3 Mar 2025 19:08:42 GMT, G wrote :   
   >   
   >   
   >> I wrote my first program on punch card... for a IBM (maybe a 340?) and the   
   lab   
   >> had half the punchers(?) from honeywell, which, of course had different   
   >> character set, Fun!.   
   >   
   >Yeah. You reminded me of the computer rooms with the raised floors (for the   
   >A/C) and the big magtapes (I still have one somewhere). When I wrote my   
   >first program in school, it was in punched cards and Fortran 77 on an IBM,   
   >oh, maybe an 1130?   
      
   For me it was an IBM 1620. This was the late '60s at Palo Alto High   
   School. The machine belonged to the school district. The school   
   district office was right next to the school, so we got to use their   
   machine.   
   >   
   >I remember the punched tape machine sat there, unused, while we employed   
   >the "more modern" boxes of punched cards. Do I remember correctly that a   
   >box was about two thousand lines of Fortran code? Most of my code was about   
   >a quarter to, at most, a half a box, so that's probably 500 to 1000 lines,   
   >excluding the obligatory IBM JCL.   
      
   A box of Hollerith (or IBM) cards held 2,000 cards. Each FORTRAN   
   statement would go on a separate card, so 2,000 FORTRAN  statements is   
   right. And if you dropped your box and spilled your cards, good luck   
   getting them back in the correct order! BTW: the 1620 was pre-JCL.   
      
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   Tim Slattery   
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