Re: [amsat-bb] Open Source Software: Antiques never die!

[Terry Bendell <ve3tkb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You ever pry apart assembler or Basic code from a 25 year old
program perhaps written for a cpu or OS you know nothing about?

Perhaps the goal is to learn the nuts and bolts the author applied, update
it and re-code for another platform.
 
Someday if it's ever released the engine for a popular and current
satellite/telemetry decoder was re-wrote just this way in the BASIC
language. Sees LOTS of use everyday its called PCSAT.EXE

 
I have some of the code here and I can tell you that I learned a pile from
it and have been able to customize it to use with current cpu platforms.
 
Nostalgia, is a big part of Ham radio, the museums, the stories, the
people and to suggest that it contributes nothing is in my opinion at
odds with the fraternity.
 
I still use an old Osborne-1 CP/M machine for satellite tracking
using MBASIC code. In fact its a great way to help newcomers short of cash
get some extra use out of the old machines they might have laying around.
 
Just my Opinion.

73

Terry

 


on 9/10/02 12:39 PM, laura halliday at marsgal42@hotmail.com wrote:

> Sorry, but you're comparing apples and oranges. For
> satellites of relatively constant altitude, an oscar-
> locator provides useful data, based on first principles,
> in a very obvious, very intuitive way.
> 
> A 20 year old BASIC program does none of this, and I
> can't say I follow your reasoning on how it is useful
> for teaching the basics. If nostalgia is all it has
> going for it, then it has nothing going for it...
> 
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