Fortran And The Genesis Of Project Intercept

Type

Text

Title

Author

Van Gardner, John

Date

2005-05

Extent

2 p.

Description

Van Gardner was one of the IBM Customer Engineers who installed 704 serial number 13 at Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia in May 1956. This memoir describes how in 1957 he debugged a hardware problem that had resulted in the Fortran compiler behaving in a nondeterministic manner.

Collection Title

Fortran Archive

Accession Number

102663109

Credit

Gift of Paul McJones

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