CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 years ago[META] What are the demographics of this community?message-squaremessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoOld. 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-up3·2 years agoIn 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-up2·2 years agoAnd now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoNo, 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-22 years agoHah, xnec2c for GUI antenna simulation still expects you to make virtual punch cards. “If it’s not broken”, I guess…
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoHeh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoIt’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.