Anyone want to buy a supercomputer?

[Richard J. Kolb]

Personally I've only used punch cards as free flash cards. My dad provided
them as he retired legacy systems when I was in kindergarten.

FWIW I was in the basement of a large company 4 years ago and stumbled
across two punch card machines that I thought were in storage, a week later
I discovered them running a program. Today I'm working on updating a radar
system from Vax/VMS to modern hardware.

If anyone is interested in also working on updating a system written in Ada
on VMS and moving it to Linux using Ada and C++ drop me a line.

Richard J. Kolb


On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 10:49 AM Mark E. Mallett <mem at schmem.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 07:52:37PM -0400, jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com wrote:
>   ...
>
> > So BASIC has a lot of detractors, mostly due to the infamous "GOTO".
>
> FORTRAN's "computed goto" put that to shame ;)
>
>
> > So here is to you, BASIC!   You moved a lot of people forward.
>
> Indeed.
>
> -mm-  (no thanks on the supercomputer)
>
>
> PS: Some time in the mid-70s I wrote a FORTRAN preprocessor that
> allowed the use of symbolic labels. It could also renumber labels,
> move format statements to their own section with their own number
> grouping. A la ratfor I guess, tho I had never heard of that (it
> sort of barely existed then anyway).
>
> PPS: I only ever took one language course in my ignoble time at college,
> prior to the thing in the PS above.  It was FORTRAN. I took it three
> times because I failed it twice, me being a horrible student and
> distracted by.. well, computers.  The third time I got a D. The final
> term project was returned with a red scrawl over the front page saying
> "I asked for a project, not a thesis." That was sort of on my mind
> because I think I had that printout up until about a week ago when it
> was accidentally thrown out by somebody working on the house here.
>
> Ah, nostalgia. I remember that.
>
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