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Ah, FORTRAN. Unless you we're using it VERY early it was most likely either FORTRAN66 or FORTRAN77. 77 was my language. I wrote so much in 77.
I worked on a PR1ME 300 for the first 5 years. The High School replaced the 300 with a 550. MUCH better.
That 300 was a kluged pile of poop! 3 drives, each had a fixed and a removable platter. The original was a 1.5MB pack and the other 2 were 3MB. Total Hard Disk capacity 15MB, usable capacity was 13.5MB, since the 1.5 fixed drive was the paging disk. It used 48kb of "core" memory. And it was expanded to 32 users, although only 31 ports worked. About 6 of the ports were dial in modems at 300 baud.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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