And now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
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davefischer@beehaw.org 1 year ago
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.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
davefischer@beehaw.org 1 year ago
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.)
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Hah, xnec2c for GUI antenna simulation still expects you to make virtual punch cards. If it’s not broken, I guess…
davefischer@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Heh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
In the early 90’s my college had a VAX for student accounts via wonderful dial up The CS dept had Sparcstation 2 workstations