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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer View Post
So in 1978-81 we were still using IBM mainframes and writing in Fortran. Personal computers were around but we weren't using them for engineering work and nobody I know actually owned one (other than gaming systems). That all changed pretty quickly by the mid-80s.

Many important Government simulations today still use Fortran. Clunky, but it works.
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