I was on the hardware side back then...the 1401s on Fortran and ran the 360s in Fortran emulation. The 1440 was used for us guys in the TAB room. They eventually pulled it out of the computer room...it didn’t need those cold temps to run.(I started out on tab equipment - no college - OTJ learning)
I was both.
In 1982 our Computer geek tragically died and my one BASIC/7 and one class in FORTRAN meant I was in charge of such things.
PDP1100.
1-foot square boards and 10-inch “floppy” disks.
Boards were proprietary so they had to be handled with care or else the home office would put a lien on your first born to get a replacement.
Cool thing (I’ve related this before) was they sent me the RS2730 board and in late 1983, I was talking to all our sister labs via an electronic network and phone lines.
Had a little pop-out connection for the RJ455 jack that we took out of the phone.