interesting Univac ad from 1956

[Dave Frederickson]

(06-05-2014 10:57 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Same year, I was learning Focal (the original one) and Fortran on a PDP-8. The math teacher warned us about the "dangers" of division by zero, and cautioned us to test for and handle it with some special message (who knows, perhaps he had seen the Univac Ad). Being annoying students, a couple of us decided that the special 'message' would be to rewind the DEC-TAPE (anyone here remember those?).

I learned Dartmouth BASIC on a PDP-8/I in '74. The DECtapes were at the school district office.

Dave