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India Four Two
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
A lovely video from the Computer History Museum, compiling and running a FORTRAN program on a 1401, which was a business machine, not a scientific computer.
My first exposure to IBM machines was running FORTRAN IV programs on the later System 360, which was a scientific machine.
I donate enough to have I my name on the wall at the museum.
I don’t consider the 360 to be a scientific computer. It was a business computer that could do scientific calculations.
A Cray was a scientific computer.
I have a 360/20, 360/30 and 360/65 operator panels. They are for sale!
The 65 console with the panel for the optional 3rd party Fabritek memory:
