Using the IBM 1130 by Bork, 1968

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Nov 30, 2011, 6:38:40 PM11/30/11
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For the serious IBM 1130 enthusiast!


Best Regards, Peter Diehr

William Gallant

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Nov 30, 2011, 10:51:15 PM11/30/11
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The same book can be found using  bookfinder.com  
About 7 or 8 copies from different retailers between 
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Dec 1, 2011, 8:40:28 AM12/1/11
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Folks,

 

I was the first Manger of the C.E. Shull Computing Center at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater VA. Part of my responsibilities was to teach a FORTRAN class.  I used this book for it.

 

Memories!!!

 

Miles Sandin

Bridgewater, VA

Peter Diehr

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Dec 1, 2011, 9:10:09 AM12/1/11
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Really?  I learned IBM 1130 assembly language from this book.  I also taught FORTRAN, but it was for business students ... seemed an odd choice even back then, but we didn't have a COBOL compiler available.

I really liked Bork's book; that's why I kept it all these years.

Best Regards, Peter

Robert A. Lerche

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Dec 1, 2011, 11:05:11 AM12/1/11
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My first teaching experience was Fortran to business students (at the
NYU Graduate School of Business Administration); it was an informal
course and I didn't use a book at all.

Yeah, it was before the COBOL compiler for the 1130 came out.

An amusing coincidence: one of my lectures was about the internal
representation of floating point, explaining the reason roundoff
errors occur. Just yesterday I encountered a bug where a float (not
double) had been used to do a timestamp conversion and of course lost
precision because the fraction is only 24 bits!

Paul Anagnostopoulos

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Dec 2, 2011, 3:59:41 PM12/2/11
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Bid placed!

~~ Paul

Bob Flanders

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Dec 3, 2011, 3:40:37 PM12/3/11
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I won the book.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Paul Anagnostopoulos <pcanagno...@gmail.com> wrote:
Bid placed!

~~ Paul


Peter Diehr

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Dec 3, 2011, 4:09:59 PM12/3/11
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Yay!  One of my favorite books, but it was time for me to let it go.

We shipped it this morning.  

Best Regards, Peter Diehr
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