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Thursday, October 24, 2013

FORTRAN - 1954

In 1954, the first FORTRAN program was run on an IBM 704 mainframe. I remember those darn keypunch cards and Fortran from my engineering classes at the University of Washington in 1975. This photo is courtesy of Geeks Fun Blog.
Posted by Vic Richardson at 9:39 AM
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