[META] What are the demographics of this community? CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org • 10 months ago message-square72fedilinkarrow-up141
arrow-up141message-square[META] What are the demographics of this community? CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org • 10 months ago message-square72fedilink
minus-square davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish5•10 months 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-square deFrisselle ( @deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org ) linkfedilink3•10 months 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-square CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) OPlinkfedilink2•10 months agoAnd now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
minus-square davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months 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-square CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) OPlinkfedilink2•edit-210 months agoHah, xnec2c for GUI antenna simulation still expects you to make virtual punch cards. “If it’s not broken”, I guess…
minus-square davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoHeh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
minus-square CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) OPlinkfedilink2•10 months 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.