[AccessD] Info: Free Windows Fortran 77 Compiler

Hi Gustav:

I worked for the Provincial Survey Generals Branch doing manual and
computerized mapping for almost ten years...(fifteen if you count forestry.)
It was a major project that transferred all the individual legal plans and
surveys from paper and linen to computer graphics. It was great fun but I
got tired of working in continuously rotating shift work. (the computers
were too expensive to not be used 24 hours a day at $125,000 per station)
When I left, each station had two 24 inch colour screen, 4 mother boards
with two 68000 CPU per board, a digitizer that was a big as a kitchen table,
one twelve by eighteen inch digitizing tablet and a twelve button cursor.
Behind the scenes was a room full of VAX 751s and rows of Alpha harddrives.
(It took two people, 6 hours to do a full backup, done once a night.)

It is almost fifteen years later and I still can not sleep more than six
hours a night.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 12:53 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Info: Free Windows Fortran 77 Compiler


Hi Jim

Sounds impressive. But cadastral? Even my trusted "American Heritage
Dictionary" (bought in Olympia 1986 for USD 4.95) had to give up on
this. Google, however, revealed this page among others:

  http://www.co.blm.gov/cadastral/cadhome.htm

Is that what your project was about?

/gustav


> Wow, that dates things...I was pretty decent Fortran programmer back in
the
> late seventies, early eighties...I build a complete cadastral AutoCAD
> application that translated coordinates from Clarke's 1886 global
positional
> formula spheroid to conic and mecaider map projections, on an Intergraph
> system, running on an old PDP11-70 VAX. I was a lot brighter then and
> remember little about it except that one period missing in a the code
could
> result in 100 plus pages of errors. I hope they have improved the error
> handling routines.

> Thanks for the heads up Marty and maybe I will take a stroll down memory
> lane. (Even though it is a bit over-grown.)

> Jim

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 5:09 PM
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> Subject: [AccessD] Info: Free Windows Fortran 77 Compiler


> I was looking at the Fortran95.Net compiler on this site when I came
> across this free for personal use Fortran 77 compiler. a bit dated
> but... Still useable with some of the good stat-math packs that are
> floating around on the net.

> http://www.salfordsoftware.co.uk/compilers/ftn77pe/index.shtml

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