Re: Ever heard of Potato Semiconductor?

Jim Thompson wrote:



Actually, I was exaggerating. The first IBM all-transistor mainframe
was in place at MIT before 1960, the year I took summer courses in FAP
and Fortran... and there was a tube version before that.

I also used a DEC PDP-8 to compose my thesis.


I wrote in assembler and Focal on a PDP8/E in 1972 at Imperial College London.
Before that in 1970 in Fortran at the Cambridge maths lab using a flexowriter to compose the paper tapes.
Turnround time about 30 minutes after 1am.
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