[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.
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In the early 90's my college had a VAX for student accounts via wonderful dial up The CS dept had Sparcstation 2 workstations
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And now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?
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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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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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Heh. Presumably there's some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
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It's an old FORTRAN program with a graphical interface kludged overtop, I think.
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