Posted on 07/06/2015 3:51:37 AM PDT by markomalley
I will never admit to doing Assembler, RPG(games or language) or fat girls.
When I was employed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville around 1972, hybrid computers were used to simulate spacecraft flight dynamics. That was the only way such computations could be done quickly. The two machines I used in that vein were the SEL810 and SEL840. (Systems Engineering Laboratories) Those machine were 24-bit digital computers with a large number of analog input and output converters that served as setpoints and readouts of a rather large and fast analog computer.
They were pitifully ugly machines, but perfect for the job.
Wash out your mouth! I had actually managed to forget that one! I programmed RPG and COBOL on an IBM Sys/3. That one looked like a baby 360, but I hated it.
Never touched it. I started on Burroughs boxen doing COBOL and managed to sneak in Algol and Basic. I went to Big Iron 4 years later and never looked back. The last 17 years have been mainframe Unix.
My college girlfriend worked for Ernst and Whinney doing thousands of lines of RPG code for textile mills all over NC. It scarred her so badly she never coded again. She’s retired now, the bij. I heard from her over the weekend. She just bought a second home where we went to school.
Assembly was the 3rd. Lol
Thankfully I don’t have to code for a living.
Used to use Fortran IV on IBM 1100 and 1800 boxes.
Slow was the operative word I recall.
All I was required to take was Basic. Used to write some pretty nasty script messages for our IT Nazis snooping around our computers at night.
BASIC then FORTRAN then Pascal then C/C++ then PERL, then Python with some various assemblies along the way. Bit of Java but not enough to matter. Personally I’d rather use Python than anything else these days but unfortunately I get to play with emails and spreadsheets more than code.
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