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message: 6
date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:09:50 -0500
from: Bruce Vining
subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol
The "luggable" indeed. When I first started with IBM I used to lug one home
pretty much every evening while writing a BASIC program to play chess on
the 5100. Found out the hard way that the BASIC subroutine stack had a
limit of 25 levels...
IIRC the 5100 was the first 'luggable', it initially ran basic.
. . . Vern - did you ever work on the IBM 5100 portable computer? Had an APL
option. Sold one once to company that designed BIG power poles.Probably
in 1976.
Jim
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