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Microsoft Fortran-80 ver 3.43 Disk and Manual for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 28-12-2022
Thanks to MbeeTech for making this disk available to be imaged. A normal Microbee 5.25" DS40 disk, not bootable and no copy protection which imaged 100% error free.
From the manual :-
Microsoft FORTRAN-80 brings the most popular
science and engineering programming language to
8080/Z80 microcomputers. FORTRAN-80 is comparable to
FORTRAN compilers on large mainframes and minicomputers.
This is Microsoft Fortran-80 version 3.43 and copyrighted 1978-1981. There are many copies of this across the internet but none are on Microbee disks ready to use, until now. The disk contains a number of *.FOR files, including a DEMO.FOR file. The disk directory is :-
A manual was eventually found on the internet for this version which was cleaned up, de-scewed, ocr'ed and converted to a normal searchable PDF. Its 321 pages long and is made up of 3 distinct manuals, being :
1. FORTRAN-80 REFERENCE MANUAL - provides an extensive description of FORTRAN-80's statements, functions and syntax.
2. FORTRAN-80 USER'S MANUAL - describes the FORTRAN-80 compiler commands and error messages.
3. MICROSOFT UTILITY SOFTWARE MANUAL -describes the use of the MACRO-80 Assembler, LINK-80 Linking Loader, and LIB-80 Library Manager with the FORTRAN-80 compiler.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Languages folder we placed
microsoft_fortran-80_ds40.dsk
microsoft_fortran-80_manual.pdf <-- in the Documentation\Manuals\Software folder