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History of computers, digital electronics, hardware manufacturers, and software developers.
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Was any indentation-sensitive language ever used with a teletype or punch cards?
I agree to an extent that COBOL was "indentation-sensitive", but it really wasn't "indentation-sensitive" but rather "column-sensitive". The original COBOL coding format had specific requirements of w …
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Did many programs really store years as two characters (Y2K bug)?
I programmed in Cobol for nearly 20 years at the start of my career and it was quite common to see two digit years used. Initially this was due to storage concerns - not necessarily only memory, but d …
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How were files transferred between different systems in the late 1980s?
I personally did not do any data transfer from home 8-bit systems to other systems, but I did do transfers from several older proprietary systems to Unix and MSDOS systems back in the 80’s.
We used a …
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What was the first C compiler for the IBM PC?
The first compiler for PC-DOS was Lattice C, released in June, 1982. This compiler was also distributed under license as Microsoft C v2.0. The Lattice C compiler was very popular and widely ported, av …
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