[Xastir] Viewing real-time Aircraft and Ships w/Xastir

[Ken Koster]

On Friday, September 21, 2018 2:13:37 PM PDT Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:11:37PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> > > Some old and really bad nightmares still begin with, "It's just Perl".
> > > I'll
> > > see about loading it up, and adding a dongle. Should be straightforward
> > > at
> > > home.
> > 
> > There _may_ be others on the Xastir list that know a little Perl and can
> > help...
> > 
> > Perl: The first write-only language?
> 
> Hah, as if.  You must never have written a program in APL.  And you should
> have been there in the days of TECO (TECO macros didn't look like programs,
> they looked like line noise).

Some of us were and the infamous TECO VT100 macro comes to mind.

And then there was the TECO macro I did that allowed other lab denizens to select 
from a menu and program proms on the serially connected Data I/O programmer.

Topped off by the control menu that purported to restrict access to various games 
on the system so management had the illusion that engineers couldn't play during 
business ours.

Those were the days...I think I even have a copy for Linux somewhere around here.  
If I distract myself enough I think I can resist installing it again.

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