Re: The joy of FORTRAN

"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:

EBCDIC text (+control codes) saved on a PC floppy!

trivia: 360s were originally going to be ASCII ... but the ASCII unit
record gear wasn't ready ... so they were going to use BCD unit record
gear with EBCDIC temporarily ... but it didn't quite turn out that way;
"biggest computer goof ever" (gone 404, but lives on at wayback)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
other refs:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180402200149/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM

also Cobol trivia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bemer
He served on the committee which amalgamated the design for his
COMTRAN language with Grace Hopper's FLOW-MATIC and thus produced the
specifications for COBOL.

and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMTRAN

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