*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@thegibson

Lovely antenna!

@dlovell

@KnottedBow I had to go and eat something too. 😺

Nothing so interesting as that plate, I am afraid, but fresh tagliarini with a light Passata tomato sauce I had made last night, and was ready to go,

Visual recipe is good. Yummy.

Chicken Hakka Noodles Recipe Desi Chinese Version By Food Fusion

https://youtu.be/KrejvDCM3mo

@shibaprasad You can find a huge list of older versions here:

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/foxit-pdf-reader/

I think version 4, the latest one on file, would be ok, maybe even their latest v.5 one. Their size is about 10 times smaller than the latest, current release, I imagine.

@peterdrake In a desktop machine, a bigger tower certainly has an edge too. 😏

Those sitting on the floor, maybe even with caster wheels, are top.

Just found. Great pics.

Have you Seen “I Saw the Future” by Artem Kubatkin
https://stampsy.com/stamp/9758

@timorl Wonderful, thank you!

@shibaprasad @Full_marx @hansw@mastodon.social
After the mainframe and Fortran, punched cards time, my next experience was with an early home computer, a Sinclair Z80 clone, and it was not the best thing to type on.

Things change a lot, certainly. 😃

@shibaprasad It's worth keeping things we download, as the newest is not always the best.

I should have known better, just had an example yesterday, BlueStacks Android breaking what was a perfectly functional installation here with a version upgrade. Never had seen it crash before. Ugh.

@shibaprasad @Full_marx I forgot to mention the other highlighted box, on the right side of the card -- it was the project number, so if you dropped or mixed the card you could still find where it belonged.

@hansw@mastodon.social
Wasn't it lovely? 😄

@shibaprasad
Thank you. Brings back some nice memories. 😄
@Full_marx

@Full_marx
A nicer photo, showing a used card and details.

We can see the card's instruction, I highlighted in green :

Z(1) = Y + W(1)

In English, it takes a lot more wording to transmit the instruction, but I believe it would read as: "Let array Z, cell 1 be equal to variable Y plus contents of array W, cell 1"

...where Z and W were previously defined and initialized as single dimensional (think a straight line of mailboxes, each cell contains some value you chose to store there) arrays.

It's been a long time, Fortran. 😉

@Full_marx Librarian in me says...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era

@shibaprasad I support your recommendation, having used it for years too.

Hint - the older versions of Foxit Reader are smaller, simpler and work well. They are still available if you look around.

Definitely NOT Adobe Reader or what have you.

One line of computer programming, whichever language you were using. Up to 80 characters wide, same as the card's width.

I remember. And we loved it. No home computers, no cellphones, no internet. Mid 70's in my case.

@Full_marx

From a wonderful Gallery of vintage imagery.

https://danismm.tumblr.com/tagged/vintage-computer

@_lunawinters A plan starts with a dream and an aspiration. Go for it.