26 Jan
2011
26 Jan
'11
6:43 a.m.
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 21:29 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/25/11 8:49 PM, Always Learning wrote:
Cobol was the second language I leaned in 1967 from a hardware manufacturer's tutor who didn't have a clue. The first was Easycoder (an assembler type) which I loved.
do you mean autocoder? that was the 'assembler' on the IBM 1400 series
You're right about Autocoder being on IBM. I remember it mentioned a lot at the time.
Easycoder was a Honeywell product and used on the H-200, H-120, H-125, H-1250 etc. In those days we had 'core' memory which really was magnetic cores with wires passing through the cores. A H-120 I worked on has a massive 32K of memory and it took 1 hour to do a Cobol compilation.
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With best regards,
Paul.
England,
EU.