[forsnax5]

Anybody out there remember wiring boards?

Yep. 402, 403, 407, 514, 519, 108 statistical sorter. ;)

I even had an old 602a for a while -- it had a card reader/punch unit from a really old keypunch machine. It would throw cards across the room when it jammed.

I learned to program SPS and Autocoder on a 1401-G. It had 8k of memory, and multiply-divide was an optional hardware feature (which we didn't have).

Still working in Cobol today on the AS/400...

[txhurl]

Insurance?

[sailor4321]

Cobol was what we used to "program" for the 1401 all the stuff previously done on accounting machines. Imagine my dismay when I discovered it wasn't "common" or "ordinary" or "business oriented" (but, I admit, it was a lot more of those things than Fortran was!).