Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Nate johnson <njj () NJJ-ASSOCIATES COM>]

Greetings Don:

Comparatively, the IBM 7090/7094 was a lot smaller, and all we did was simulate orbital trajectories for passive attitude satellites.  I do recall that it had no card reader.  At that time the GE 635 was supposedly comparable to the IBM 7090/7094 or larger.  Then, there was RCA.  

Indeed, Fortran was the major player of note.

While punched cards were mentioned, were the holes circles or rectangles? 

Thank you I will update my cv accordingly and see what happens.

With best regards,

Nate
On Aug 18, 2010, at 6:11 PM, David Lundy wrote:

> True - the Altair ran CP/M, but the Popular Electronics article about
> the Altair was the inspiration for Gates to drop out of school and sell
> MITS on BASIC vaporware which he and Paul Allen eventually produced.  I
> recollection is that BASIC sold for $500 and was distributed on paper
> tape.  The Altair made a much bigger splash than the earlier
> Radio-Electronics article on a 8008 kit.  The 8008 architecture
> suggested the future but the stack limit of 8 nested function calls
> hobbled the chip. 
>
> Dave
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> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:31:17PM -0700, David Lundy wrote:
> > I do!! I do!!  Remember the Altair and Imsai computers and other
> > S-100 bus computers 
>
> Yeah... Those days there were a LOT of different architectures,
> machine languages, etc.
>
> > the computers that inspired Bill Gates to launch Microsoft? 
>
> Nah... CP/M.... an OS which ran on 8080/Z80 processors.  MS-Dos
> version 1 was pretty much a copy of CP/M...
>
> But those kind of machines were pretty much after the front
> pannel switches...  PDP-8 was my speciality.... 12 bit words.
>
>
> -- 
> Pete Hickey                      
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