In today’s post we will take a look at IBM Personal Computer Fortran compiler version 1.00 released in January 1982. This post is part of a series in which I try to get experience of what it was like to program in the early 80s. As the last time, I am going to use my …
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Those were the days – part 2
This is the second blog post in the series, and this time I am going to explore what was like to program for IBM Personal Computer Pascal 1.00 during the early 80s. Well, that was mouthful. From now on, I will refer it as IBM Pascal 1.00. According to its documentation it was released in …
Those were the days – part 1
I’ve been programming for quite some time, and over the years I’ve witnessed remarkable progress in development tools and ideas. The pace of change is amazing—it’s easy to forget how we worked just a few years ago, which made me wonder what it was like to use programming tools in the early 80s. In this …