[META] What are the demographics of this community?
[META] What are the demographics of this community?
Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of "I remember"-type responses, so I have to wonder.
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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.