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From: nam2254@dsacg2.UUCP (Tom Ohmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: *66, *68, *77, etc...
Message-ID: <846@dsacg2.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 19:58:06 GMT
References: <1479@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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From article <1479@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>, by fenske@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Robert Fenske Jr):
> 
> Wasn't there an Algol60 ?  And I don't know of any Fortran earlier than
> '66.  And wasn't there some Cobol standard before '74?  (This is "ancient
> history" as far as computers go!)

In 1970 I learned COBOL B, COBOL D, and COBOL H on a Honeywell H-200.  It had 
a drum printer, card reader, teletype console, sense switches, card punch, 
4 (noisy) tape drives, and 16k of memory.  Took almost a half hour to compile 
a modestly complex program.  We (Erie County, PA Technical School class of 
'72) were excited when we upgraded to 28k and a (removable platter) disk 
drive.  Yeah, ancient history, alright! :-) 
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