Donna Garverick wrote:
>
> Tom Brandt wrote:
>
> > Neil Harvey wrote:
> >
> > > My first brush with computers (I had just flunked first year Accounting
> > > as an articled clerk) was at Ford Motor Company in Port Elizabeth, South
> > > Africa on a Burroughs B3500.
> > >
> > > It had 16K "core", a card reader and punch, and a 100MB head-per-track
> > > disk the size of a pickup truck.
> >
> > My first job out of school was with Burroughs at their former HQ in
> > Detroit.  I was a programmer working on accounting applications for the
> > notorious B80/B800 machines.
>
> anybody want to wax poetic about 'candy' (was that how you spelled
> it?)?  i remember (in college) when candy got fired up and the system
> came to a screeching halt 8-]                 - d
>
>

It was CANDE.  I might still have a manual from the '70s, unless it
didn't make the move up here (haven't unpacked yet).  I learned
programming by using Algol on a Burroughts 7800 (and earlier/smaller
models) in jobs during college at UOP and UCD in California.  Probably
one reason I found the 3000 easy to learn, although I do recall missing
CANDE when I was first learning MPE (why not build text editing function
into the CI?).

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