Comments on: Historic FORTRAN documents online http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/ Preserving historic software Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Paul McJones http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-591 Paul McJones Wed, 18 May 2005 01:55:53 +0000 http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-591 The memoir that Van mentioned in the first comment above is now available online -- see http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/FORTRAN/index.html#Memoirs_and_user_stories . The memoir that Van mentioned in the first comment above is now available online — see http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/FORTRAN/index.html#Memoirs_and_user_stories .

]]> By: Henry Katz http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-590 Henry Katz Wed, 18 May 2005 00:52:23 +0000 http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-590 I will be leaving UMBC at the end of June 2005. I hope to be taking a position at NorthropGrumman as a Supervisor of their Fortran group. Waiting to hear from them as their HR people met today (May 17) so I should hear from them soon. I will be leaving UMBC at the end of June 2005. I hope to be taking a position at NorthropGrumman as a Supervisor of their Fortran group.

Waiting to hear from them as their HR people met today (May 17) so I should hear from them soon.

]]> By: Henry Katz http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-542 Henry Katz Fri, 06 May 2005 01:27:34 +0000 http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-542 I first learned FORTRAN in the Summer of 1961 while working at Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach, FL working on the RL-10 liquid fueled rocket engine. I now teach a course called Scientific Computing at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The course is for those students majoring in Physics and Chemistry. I have a Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master of Science in Physics (minor in Math) from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. I first learned FORTRAN in the Summer of 1961 while working at Pratt & Whitney in West Palm Beach, FL working on the RL-10 liquid fueled rocket engine.

I now teach a course called Scientific Computing at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).

The course is for those students majoring in Physics and Chemistry.

I have a Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master of Science in Physics (minor in Math) from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.

]]> By: Van Gardner http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-539 Van Gardner Mon, 02 May 2005 16:25:03 +0000 http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2005/04/23/39/#comment-539 I was one of the original IBM Customer Engineers that installed 704 serial 13 at Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, GA in May 1956. When Fortran was released in April 1957 we were one of the first customers to run it. We soon ran into troubles where compiler would print out the message "Machine error" on the 716 printer. To solve this problem we needed a source listing of the compiler. It took the Branch Manager several days to get one for us and it was on a roll of 35 mm microfilm. This had to be under IBM control at all times and when we finished the bug it was sent back to the Branch Office. I don't know what happend to that roll but I just wanted to point out that a listing did exist in that form at that time. If you are interested send me an email address and I will send you a two page Word document from my memoirs describing this period. Van Gardner Smyrna, Ga. I was one of the original IBM Customer Engineers that installed 704 serial 13 at Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, GA in May 1956.

When Fortran was released in April 1957 we were one of the first customers to run it. We soon ran into troubles where compiler would print out the message “Machine error” on the 716 printer. To solve this problem we needed a source listing of the compiler. It took the Branch Manager several days to get one for us and it was on a roll of 35 mm microfilm. This had to be under IBM control at all times and when we finished the bug it was sent back to the Branch Office. I don’t know what happend to that roll but I just wanted to point out that a listing did exist in that form at that time.

If you are interested send me an email address and I will send you a two page Word document from my memoirs describing this period.

Van Gardner
Smyrna, Ga.

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