Nearly 650 Memories of the 650
Of the many interesting aspects of Bemer’s career, one that has impressed me most is his ability to move back and forth between what we at one time perceived as the two classes of computers: “scientific” and “commercial. ” Note his contributions to the IBM 650, 704, and 705, as well as to compilers (perhaps still called automatic coding devices) and interpreters of quite different sorts. I do not know B. C. Borden or where he/she may Carnegie and IBM to produce FORTRANSIT is welcome and helps to compl$e the record. I especially appreciate Bemer’s generous sketches of his colleagues at Lockheed, Here he closes one loop: he discusses Fletcher Jones, a founder and former president of Computer Sciences Corporation, whose foundation endowed the professorship Donald Knuth holds at Stanford.