Comment on [META] What are the demographics of this community?

• 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.)

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  • 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…

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    • davefischer@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Heh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s an old FORTRAN program with a graphical interface kludged overtop, I think.

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