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Graham Cobb Silver badge

Re: No love for CORAL 66?

My second professional programming job was in Coral 66 (actually, PO Coral). If I remember correctly, I had to write the code on a George III system (doing my editing on a teletype as the team only had one VDU and as the most junior I was never allowed to use it). It was then compiled a while later by a batch job and I had to walk to the computer centre after a while to collect my tape to load into the SystemX prototype I was working on (and often had to cajole the operators into loading a tape, which they had ignored for the last hour, so the job could finish and I could collect my tape to take to the lab).

When I fixed the trivial bug I would find in my testing, I had to do the whole process again. About two iterations a day was fairly typical.

(My first professional programming job was in APL - that was quite fun).

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