Hi Richmond,
I was searching for something else and ran across this post of yours.
It reminded me of the time A buddy of mine and I wrote a program in Fortran to find a Knight's tour of the chessboard.
The IBM 360 that we had access to (in the days of Punch Cards) timed out at 1 minute before a solution was found.
A buddy converted the program to Basic and ran it on a timeshare computer. His terminal was in Okla City, and the computer was somewhere in Ohio.
The answer was spit out after more than 20 minutes.
How things have changed!
Tom Ragsdale
I was searching for something else and ran across this post of yours.
It reminded me of the time A buddy of mine and I wrote a program in Fortran to find a Knight's tour of the chessboard.
The IBM 360 that we had access to (in the days of Punch Cards) timed out at 1 minute before a solution was found.
A buddy converted the program to Basic and ran it on a timeshare computer. His terminal was in Okla City, and the computer was somewhere in Ohio.
The answer was spit out after more than 20 minutes.
How things have changed!
Tom Ragsdale
Statistics: Posted by trags3 — Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:48 pm
