{"id":14,"date":"2004-01-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/01\/21\/14\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:10:48","slug":"its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/01\/21\/14\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the monthly Software Collection Committee meeting, it was agreed to include &#8220;early Fortran&#8221; as one of the first tests for our collection and preservation efforts. I volunteered to lead this activity, and Lee Courtney and Len Shustek also signed up. Lee suggested that since the museum already has a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120113034254\/http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/projects\/ibm_1620\/\">restored IBM 1620<\/a> with lots of software, 1620 Fortran might be interesting, and Len suggested Waterloo Fortran. But I exercised my authority as chairperson to stick to the original Fortran, for the IBM 704.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the monthly Software Collection Committee meeting, it was agreed to include &#8220;early Fortran&#8221; as one of the first tests for our collection and preservation efforts. I volunteered to lead this activity, and Lee Courtney and Len Shustek also signed up. Lee suggested that since the museum already has a restored IBM 1620 with lots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/01\/21\/14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s official&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}