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I took Fortran in college and luckily I had just previously purchased one of the
first IBM PCs and a Fortan compiler.
There was no hard drive in this thing, just 2 full height 5 1/4 inch 360K floppies.
So compiling a Fortran program was an exercise in swapping disks -
again and again and again...
Thank you for the remembrance of Fortran Four and ‘77. Developed a lot of code under VMS/OpenVms in that language. Maybe some of the best in my career. Regards.
I still have my waften IV fortran textbook.
I used fortran based software and fortran to write tools until my sgi o2 crapped out in 2014. one of the great things about fortran was that you could move subroutines around and change goto logic, recompile and get faster running code. The great thing about the hz100 was that heathkit built it as a kit and you could find ways to improve it in the heathkit magazine. I discovered ramdrive, added more memory and used ramdrive to speed thing up in both compile and execution.