[Info-vax] [OT] Current students apparently can't read Fortran code...

[gah4]

On Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 2:20:01 PM UTC-7, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

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> Oh yeah, and an IBM Tech Rep who got rich off of that contract because 
> someone on the day shift couldn't keep their hands off the thermostat. 

I was not so many years ago, working with the IBM 360/20.

It seems that it has temperature compensation for the magnetic
core memory, so it can work in an office environment without
air conditioning. 

Some of the earlier machines put the whole core memory in oil
to keep it cooled and constant temperature.