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From: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  )
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Old fashion computing practices @ NASA
Message-ID: <1079@cbdkc1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 18:35:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 18:35:36 1985
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Reply-To: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  )
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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A former prof of mine, and good friend, worked for NASA through a subcontractor
for a period of time after receiving his PhD. He told me that there were "old"
diehards that still used cards to program when he was there (74-77). This was
inspite of the fact that modern terminals were available.  He also said that 
one of the main launch sequencing programs for the shuttle was written
in FORTRAN and it included hundreds of lines of EQU's at the beginning. 

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

George Erhart