CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 months ago[META] What are the demographics of this community?message-squaremessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoAnd now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
minus-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 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-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·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-squaredavefischer@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoHeh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months 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.