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Date	Name	Machine	Author(s)	Location
1954-57	FORTRAN (0&I)	IBM 704	Backus et al.a	IBM
1957	FORTRANSIT	IBM 650	Bemer, Alexander, Pessin, Hemmes, May	IBM
1958	650 FORTRAN	IBM 650	Pessin, Wu	IBM
1958	FORTRAN	IBM 709	b	IBM
1958	FORTRAN II	IBM 704	Backus et al.; Mitchell, Sheridan, Brady, May	IBM
1958	FORTRAN III	IBM 704	Ziller, Nelson	IBM
1960	FORTRAN	IBM 1620	Laffan	IBM
1960	ALTAC	Philco 2000	Rosen, Goldberg	Philco
1960	FORTRAN	IBM 7070	Alexander et al.	IBM
1960	FORTRAN	IBM 705	Brittenham, Horning, Kuss, Matheny, Miller, Seldon, Williams	IBM/GUIDE
1960	FORTRAN	CDC 1604	Cray	CDC
1960	Honeywell Algebraic Compiler	?	Opler	CUC
1961	FORGO	IBM 1620	Davidson, McClure	Wisconsin
1961	FORTRAN	H-290	Hankins	HIS
1961	GOTRAN	IBM 1620	Laffin, Resta	IBM
1961	Automath-800	H-800	Opler, King, O'Conner, Beeber, Hopkins, Brestwick	CUC
1961	FORTRAN I	UNIVAC	? c	Remington-Rand
1961	FORTRAN II	LARC	CSC	Remington-Rand
1961	UT FORTRAN	IBM 1620	Lee, Field	Toronto
1961	AFIT FORTRAN	IBM 1620	Pratt	Wright Patterson AFB
1961	1401 FORTRAN	IBM 1401	Haines et al.	IBM
1961	FORTRAN	B5000	?	Burroughs
1961	FORTRAN IV	IBM 7090/4	Larner	IBM
1961	FORTRAN II	RCA 301	Hux et al.	RCA
1962	FORTRAN IV	IBM 7040/4	Medlock	IBM
1962	FORTRAN II	Univac LARC	Erdwinn, Ferguson, Gatt, Malenkoff, Nutt, Richards	CSC
1962	Automath-400	H-400	Boris and Cahill	HIS
1962	FORTRAN II	RCA 301	Hux et al.	RCA
1963	FORTRAN IV	Univac 1107 d	Anderson, England, Erdwinn, Ferguson, Gatt, Kinney, Martin, Nutt, Perrine	CSC
1963	FORTRAN IV	UNIVAC III	Balke, Harkins, Nutt, Peterson, van der Wouw	CSC
1963	Automath-1800	H-800/1800	Chang	HIS
1963	Automath-1400	H-1400	Roth	CDC
1963	FORTRAN	CDC 160A	Neuhaus	CDC
1963	FORTRAN S1	IBM 7030 (Stretch)	Glennie	UKAEA (AWRE)
1963	FORTRAN IV	IBM 7030 (Stretch)	Bishop, Webster	IBM
1963	KINGSTRAN	IBM 1620	Field, Jardine, Lee, Lee, Robinson	Kingston, Ont.
1964	FORTRAN S2	IBM 7030 (Stretch)	Glennie	UKAEA (AWRE)
1964	FORTRAN IV	Philco 2000	Brown, Rice, Richards, Sidrane	CSC
1964	Atlas Fortran	Atlas (Ferranti)	Pyle, Stokoe, Fossey, Chapman, Bryant, Hopgood, Trice g	UKAEA (AERE)
1964	FORTRAN	Orion (Ferranti)	Taylor, Harrigan	Rutherford Lab. (UK)
1964	FORTRAN	SDS910	Dunlap, Ryan	Digitek
1964	FORTRAN	CDC 3000L	Schumacher	CDC
1964	FORTRAN	CDC 3600	Tiede	CDC
1964	Fast FORTRAN	CDC 3600	?	Michigan State
1964	FORTRAN II	RCA 3301	Hux et al.	RCA
1964	FORTRAN IV	RCA 601	Best	Decision Systems
1964	FASTRAN	IBM 709/7090/7094	Hagstrom, Prosser, Young e	Indiana
1965	PUFFT	IBM 7094	Rosen et al.	Purdue
1965	FORTRAN IV	IBM 7030 (Stretch)	Macintosh, Matheny, McPherson, Peterson, Sexton, Stephens	CSC
1965	FORTRAN V	Univac 1108	Hall, Macintosh, Matheny, Perrine, Stephens, White	CSC
1965	FORTRAN S3	Atlas 2 (Ferranti)	Glennie	UKAEA (AWRE)
1965	FORTRAN 0	H-200	Hawkes	HIS
1965	GE FORTRAN	GE 235	?	GE
1965	EGTRAN	KDF9	Burns, Hawkins, Judd, Venn f	English Electric-Leo-Marconi
1965	LRLTRAN	IBM 7090/CDC 3600	Mendicino et al. g	LRL
1965	FORTRAN	ICT 1900 series	? f	ICT
1966	FORTRAN IV	SDS 9300	Owens, Hartman	SDS
1966	FORTRAN H	S/360	Holliday et al.	IBM
1966	FORTRAN H	H-1200/2200	Shy, Gintall	HIS
1966	COS FORTRAN	CDC 6600	McCrossen	CDC
1966	FORTRAN J	H-4200	Shy, Freiburghouse	HIS
1966	FORTRAN IV	RCA Spectra	Moshos	RCA
1967	DITRAN	CDC 1604$	Moulton, Muller	Wisconsin
1967	FORTRAN IV	Philips	Erdwinn, Klunder, van der Wouw	Philips/Apeldoorn
1967	FORTRAN IV	S/360-67	Drusts, Rice, Sidrane, Smith, Swift, Wakino	CSC
1967	FORTRAN T3	Titan (Atlas 2, Ferranti)	Larmouth	Cambridge Univ.
1967	FORTRAN G	S/360	?	Digitek
1967	FORTRAN F (DOS version)	S/360	?	Digitek
1967	MOD 8 FORTRAN	H-8200	Jackson et al.	HIS
1967	WATFOR	S/360	Shantz et al.	Waterloo

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Abbreviations

AWRE	Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
CDC	Control Data Corporation
CSC	Computer Sciences Corporation
CUC	Computer Usage Corporation
HIS	Honeywell Information Systems
ICT	International Computers and Tabulators
LRL	Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California
RCA	Radio Corporation of America
SDS	Scientific Data Systems
UKAEA	United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Sources:

J. E. Sammet, Programming Languages, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1969; memory; private correspondence; extensive research by Daniel Leeson (IBM), Brian Chapman (UKAEA), Roy Nutt (CSC), Martin Greenfield (HIS), and Millie Price and Richard Ragan (CDC).

^a The designation Backus et al. indicates the group identified in the 1957 WJCC paper's author list.

^b Officially (from IBM files), this work was a straight conversion from the 704 implementation done by the Backus group. Medlock (private correspondence) attributes the management of this work to Harry Bekish.

^c A question mark indicates that the information is unknown. Readers are invited to correct and/or update the list.

^d Also later implemented on the Burroughs 5500, CDC 3600, and Univac 1108.

^e Added in 2007 following personal communication from Stanley Hagstrom (PCC).

^f Added in 2010 following discussions on UK Fortran mailing list (PCC).

^g Added in 2012 following personal communications from Ian Pyle (PCC).

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Based on pages 10-11 of Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 6, Number 1, January 1984

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