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Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL

Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL

Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL
This item is a fully original NOS Microsoft FORTRAN 80 for CP/M 80 compiler, with software on an original 8 Floppy Disk and the complete original manual, in the original binder. FORTRAN 80 for CP/M 80 was the second product produced by the Microsoft corporation, and being so this rare item is of great historical significance. There is some staining on the front cover label of the binder (see photo), but otherwise it is in like-new condition.

The disk appears to have never been used, and all of the manual pages are clean, not torn, and appear to have had little or no use. FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) was first used in 1957.

It was a popular programming language designed specifically to solve scientific, mathematical and engineering problems. Its development started in 1954 with John Backus and some IBM designers. It was first featured with IBM 704 computers. For several years, FORTRAN was the only high level language available and the only alternative to machine-level or assembly language programming. FORTRAN was the first programming language Bill Gates used in his high school years.

His school wanted him to write a class scheduling program on a Digital computer. Bill wrote it in FORTRAN, and designed a special version to put him in classes with no other boys and all the girls he thought were cute!

It was partly written by Bill Gates and ran under the CP/M operating system. The high quality of the software and its documentation placed Microsoft among the first serious suppliers in an emergent professional software industry. The item "Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL" is in sale since Saturday, October 08, 2016.

This item is in the category "Computers/Tablets & Networking\Vintage Computing\Vintage Manuals & Merchandise".roger" and is located in Leominster, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, to China, to Mexico, to Germany, to Japan, BR, to France, to Australia, RU, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, GR, PT, CY, SI, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, ZA, TH, to Belgium, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Austria, IL, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, CL, CO, CR, PA, TT, GT, HN, JM.

  • Type: Compiler Disk & Manual
  • Brand: Microsoft
  • MPN: 30H05
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Rare historical NOS Microsoft Fortran 80 Software Disk & Manual ORIGINAL