Dave Hinz wrote:

On Fri, 27 May 2005 02:52:43 GMT, jo4hn wrote:
Dave Hinz wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005 22:26:01 GMT, Patrick Conroy wrote:


Second "PC" was a //e that I upped to 128K to run Apple (UCSD) Pascal.
That was fun...


AAAAAAAAAARGH! Someone mentioned UCSD Pascal!

Please, please don't do that. Just for that - FORTAN 77!!!!


Humph. Late comer. How about Fortran I and FAP, later MAP and Fortran
II.

'79 or '80 is as early as I get, having been 12 years old at the time.

Lots of people writing good stuff to augment the manufacturer's
offerings, including CARE (CDC 924 assembler), Boolfinder (JPL 7044 link
editor), and a memory management system for 360 75's running RTOS/JPLOS
(can't remember the name). The last three are unfair because I wrote
them (most of them anyway) in about 1963, 1968, and 1971.

/tip of the hat

Ahead of me, also...I was just getting out of HS in '63 and didn't get
to touch the IBM 1620 as freshman back then...had a full semester of
hand-coding starting w/ binary, then machine language to prepare us for
FORTRAN coding forms...