[PLUG] Brain the size of a planet - algol

[Pete Lancashire]

No need to duck :)

Saw a couple Jovial programs, and sadly never did see a 709 up
front. I began in the transitor/SLT era 360s and B5000's

But did get a tour of a SAGE site, 55,000 tubes and a 99.8%
uptime. Still hard to believe. BTW that tour was in the 1980's !!

-pete



On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 20:08, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Ah, but do you remember Algol *58* and its descendents, MAD, JOVIAL and
> NELIAC? Did you ever see an IBM 709?
> 
> <ducking>
> 
> Pete Lancashire wrote:
> 
> >Ah Algol, loved it in the late 60's early 70's. I smile when
> >people talk about languages and never mention Algol.
> >
> >I worked at Burroughs where the O/S was written in Algol,
> >the hardware was stack based, etc. etc.
> >
> >In fact you and to a very very special customer to have
> >access to an assembler.
> >
> >Sorry I digress .. back to the present
> >
> >-pete
> >
> >
> >
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