[AccessD] Info: Free Windows Fortran 77 Compiler

Hi Jim

Ahh - brings back memories of Genigraphic and Dicomed designer
stations for computer graphics. At our sister company those were also
manned 24 hours a day due to the cost. I still remember the super
stressed look of those operators when we met in the morning ... I
surely understand your decision.

Later my old company sold some lower level design stations
manufactured by AVL including a Polaroid processing camera; great fun
calibrating these all the time.

However, those were the days of the XT and AT with close to zero
professional graphic capabilities. And certainly no Freelance or
PowerPoint ... 

/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-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
>> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 5:09 PM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> 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