Dinosaur
Joined 24 August 2022
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During this period the console typewriter flung the slug for the letter W from its key and we had to adjust our programmes to use VV instead, much to the amusement of our lecturer Gary Tee who noted that we were reversing a millenium-old development in orthography.
Over the Christmas and summer holidays I gained money instead of milkshakes: employed by the computer centre to write a data-checking system in Fortran IV, plus my first introduction to IBM1130 assembler.
I now was quite clear on the distinction between source code (as in COBOL) and compiled code.
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