CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 year ago[META] What are the demographics of this community?message-squaremessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAnd now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year 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-21 year 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-up1·1 year agoHeh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s an old FORTRAN program with a graphical interface kludged overtop, I think.
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.