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My FORTRAN 77 experience in college also included the control lines in the file to have the operating system of the CDC Cyber 172/6600 (a hybrid of two Control Data Corporation super computer/mainframe). The first lines of the file outlined the account submitting the file, where the input & output would be, and some other items to just make the compile/run happen.

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That is what I learned FORTRAN on too, a CDC cyber something (a year earlier). I do not even remember what happened to my text book for that class. And my first job was in FORTRAN a year later (which I messed up royally).

As someone else mentioned, I have been thinking of getting back into FORTRAN.

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