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[META] What are the demographics of this community? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of "I remember"-type responses, so I have to wonder.

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[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And now we have everyone. Did you ever use punch cards?

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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