CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 3年前[META] What are the demographics of this community?message-squaremessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up158arrow-down1message-square[META] What are the demographics of this community?CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 3年前message-square89fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3年前Old. Just caught the tail end of the era of big machines. Learnt Unix on a VAX 11/750. Used text terminals for a long time.
minus-squaredeFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3年前In the early 90’s my college had a VAX for student accounts via wonderful dial up The CS dept had Sparcstation 2 workstations
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3年前And now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3年前No, except for software that represented data in virtual punched cards under the covers, for communicating with remote systems. (None of which used punched cards anymore.)
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23年前Hah, xnec2c for GUI antenna simulation still expects you to make virtual punch cards. “If it’s not broken”, I guess…
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3年前Heh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3年前It’s an old FORTRAN program with a graphical interface kludged overtop, I think.
Old. Just caught the tail end of the era of big machines.
Learnt Unix on a VAX 11/750. Used text terminals for a long time.
In the early 90’s my college had a VAX for student accounts via wonderful dial up The CS dept had Sparcstation 2 workstations
And now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
No, except for software that represented data in virtual punched cards under the covers, for communicating with remote systems. (None of which used punched cards anymore.)
Hah, xnec2c for GUI antenna simulation still expects you to make virtual punch cards. “If it’s not broken”, I guess…
Heh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
It’s an old FORTRAN program with a graphical interface kludged overtop, I think.