Blast From The Past – House Cleaning

I have pack rat tendencies, but am better than I used to be. No, really….

This past week, I learned that they are going to close my office, since there are only three of us left in that office, and we will be to work from home. It is not yet decided if it will be the end of February or March. Either way, I have to make room for working at home on a permanent basis, instead of just clearing a work spot for a day here and there due to weather.

One thing I can across was what is left of a pad of FORTRAN Coding Forms. I have not done FORTRAN in 30 years, since the first semester, my freshman year of college. I recall that FORTRAN is a position based language, that is certain things had to be in certain places on each line of 80 characters. This is because punch cards were based on 80 character lines. I was in the first class that didn’t have to use punch cards, as we had terminals to the main frame. Any way, what RPG gamer looks at this and doesn’t see graph paper needing a map?

 

FORTRAN-grid
FORTRAN-grid

So, I took some time to unwind from cleaning and organizing to make a map of a tomb that in it’s third expansion uncovered a huge cavern. No idea yet what was found, but I am sure it is something I can use later….

 

FORTRAN-map
FORTRAN-map
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