Subj : Re: COBOL for Beginners
To   : Grease
From : smartyhall
Date : Sat Dec 07 2019 04:04 am

  Re: Re: COBOL for Beginners
  By: Grease to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Dec 05 2019 04:25 pm

 > We did FORTRAN and COBOL in high school. Back in '80. We used this big
 > epsidic (sp) machine to type out our punch cards. Then we would put them in
 > theis huge collator and run them through and then we would print out if what
 > we did was successful.
 > It never failed when you had about 100 cards for a major project and the
 > machine sucks it up. Or you mistype that one letter.
 > Grease

EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal

a.k.a. Yet another bad idea in service of "customer retention." lol

I really should give FORTRAN another go. In any case, I long to one day have enough room for a card punch of my verry own. I've just about given up on my childhood dream of owning a fully-functional UNIVAC with drum storage though.
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