JohnMashey

@mattblaze@federate.social
Thanks. I have fond memories of running Fortran programs on IBM 7090 there in late 1960s, for vacation job up the street.
It ran UMES, and of course MAD.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_(programming_language)

@mattblaze@federate.social
Hey, if you get out this way again & would like a free tour of Computer History Museum in Mountain View, let me know.

@mattblaze@federate.social
Agreed, as in all domains.
Ex: it takes al ot of work to make operating systems robust, at which point nobody notice.

@mattblaze@federate.social
We werre just at Battersea last month.
"been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices" is an understatment... it's a very upscale upgrade of the place, a real surprise to my British wife who lived in London in late 1970s.
https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/
We then took a boat ride down the Thames to the Canary Wharf complex. The building lighting on South side of river made it seem more like Hong Kong or Tokyo.
https://canarywharf.com/

@mattblaze@federate.social
Looking there led me to another nice photo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53796724938/in/photostream/
It makes a good hike, great views over the Valley.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Umunhum

@mattblaze@federate.social
Fond memories: when wiorking vacation jobs just up the street at US Bureau of Mines Pittsburgh Mining Research Center ~1967-69, I used to take decks of punch cards to run jobs on Pitt's IBM 7090, also houses in the Cathedral.