[DeTomaso] NPC: Fortran Re: math formula help

[RFogle1 at aol.com]

I worked as a technical temp for three years on a drafting automation  
project in the early 90's and they were still using Fortran.  About a dozen  of 
us wrote Fortran programs that made engineering drawings for aircraft  wheel 
and brake component family's.  We weren't very popular with the  drafting 
dept.  They had armed guards that walked us to our  cars.  It was a miserable 
place to work, but the economy was sucking  wind and I was a new dad.  
Prior to that I had a one hour intro to  Mechanical Engineering class where we 
had to write a Fortran program to average  and compile baseball stats (punch 
cards) for an imaginary  team.  Had I known that my livelihood years later 
was going to  depend on Fortran, I would have paid more attention.  Ron  
(Akron)
 

 
Ronald M. Fogle

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In a message dated 11/5/2009 3:01:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
asajay at asajay.com writes:

I  learned Fortran in High school as well, first on punch cards (first   
part of class), then on dumb terminals.  It was a blast but I  never  
wrote anything of significance and it honestly took me several  more  
years to really understand how "programming" really  worked.

Oh the memories.
Asa Jay

Quoting Daniel C Jones  <daniel.c.jones2 at gmail.com>:

>> That caused a blast of  nostalgia Dan.
>> Wrote my first fortran2 program in 1964  (1620ibm)
>> Last one maybe 15 years after that.
>> Nice to  see.
>> dave
>
> I'm actually logged into a Vax machine  right now.
> I learned Fortran IV with Watfiv while I was in high school  using
> punch cards.
>
> Dan Jones
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