Msg: Re: 1.3

Yep, high school. A little machine language (well, you had to to boot the machine up from the console); assembler and then a two pass Fortran compiler. I wasthe card punch.

I canâ€™t remember what the assembler project was. Oddly enough, my older sister, just a little later than that, was hired just out of college by IBM and worked on the Fortran IV compiler; pretty sure she was one the first women programmers at IBM, certainly one of the first Jewish women programmers.

On Sep 10, 2026 at 4:19:06â€¯PM, Bob Newell wrote:
The 1620! I learned on that machine back in 1966 when still in high school. I programmed a game in assembler as part of a National Science Foundation summer program. Wow, decimal core memory with variable word lengthssembler. I think I still have the assembler textbook for the 1620 stored away somewhere. Thanks for bringing back some memories!

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026, at 09:14, David Auerbach wrote:

> Yes, back in the 80s and 90s
> 60s I programmed in assembler (IBM 1620 and 7094). I even, on the 1620,

> programmed in machine code.

Bob Newell

Honolulu

David Auerbach

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