John Pearce wrote: Anyone remember running Fortran II on the IBM 1620 before IBM provided the 1311 disk drive? All punch cards. We thought we were in heaven when IBM provided a 1311 drive and we could dump all those card decks. --------------------Reply Separator---------------------- Yep, storage was a big room down the hall filled with card tray cabinets. The computer operator was actually part of the process. I remember pushing a cart loaded with card trays from sorter, to collator, to reproducer, to IBM 1401 using a procedure flowchart for the processing steps. If you needed more storage extents, you rearanged the trays in the cabinets. Steve Barrett Steven P. Barrett Systems Analyst Fairfax County Public Library e-mail: [log in to unmask] --- The opinions expressed here are mine alone. --- "Life is dear to every living thing, the worm that crawls upon the grownd will struggle for it." (from Solomon Northup's - Twelve Years a Slave, at - http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/northup/northup.html)