Itwbennett did not set a time limit for when you used the “old technology” so I guess my experiences should qualify. It the summer of 1958, while a student at MIT, I worked for the Air Force Cambridge Research Center helping to develop a runway-weather-prediction program for their micro-meterology branch. We tried to run it on their IBM 650 but it was too slow taking 1.25 hours for a 1 hour prediction, so we went over to the Institute and used the IBM 740. It took 15 minutes.
You could go over to the calculator room and wait in line if you needed more than your slide rule and log tables. We programmed in Fortran, and used stacks of punch cards for programs and data. Results were printed out on teletype terminals. It was awful, especially if you dropped a stack of cards.
Now, Wow! I am working on my iMac with my wife placing an order with Amazon on her iPad Air. Our son just called us using FaceTime but I was outside so it came in on my Apple Watch.
OK, i am talking about a 50+ year time span. It would be fun to know what the next 50 years will bring.
I have been trying to decide if I want to upgrade my VMWare Fusion or try Parallels again. This answers the question, for good. Trust is so important in a relationship. VMWare has been working fine for me. I guess I was just looking for something new.
I thought my Thinkpad was a great laptop until I replaced it with a MacBook Pro. It is a far superior laptop and a much more enjoyable computing experience. It's fun!
I run Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux as virtual machines in Parallels. Windows application, especially Photoshop Elements, seem to run much better in the Windows XP Virtual Machine than it did on my old 2 GHz Thinkpad.
Good luck.
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Itwbennett did not set a time limit for when you used the “old technology” so I guess my experiences should qualify. It the summer of 1958, while a student at MIT, I worked for the Air Force Cambridge Research Center helping to develop a runway-weather-prediction program for their micro-meterology branch. We tried to run it on their IBM 650 but it was too slow taking 1.25 hours for a 1 hour prediction, so we went over to the Institute and used the IBM 740. It took 15 minutes. You could go over to the calculator room and wait in line if you needed more than your slide rule and log tables. We programmed in Fortran, and used stacks of punch cards for programs and data. Results were printed out on teletype terminals. It was awful, especially if you dropped a stack of cards. Now, Wow! I am working on my iMac with my wife placing an order with Amazon on her iPad Air. Our son just called us using FaceTime but I was outside so it came in on my Apple Watch. OK, i am talking about a 50+ year time span. It would be fun to know what the next 50 years will bring.
I have been trying to decide if I want to upgrade my VMWare Fusion or try Parallels again. This answers the question, for good. Trust is so important in a relationship. VMWare has been working fine for me. I guess I was just looking for something new.
I thought my Thinkpad was a great laptop until I replaced it with a MacBook Pro. It is a far superior laptop and a much more enjoyable computing experience. It's fun! I run Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux as virtual machines in Parallels. Windows application, especially Photoshop Elements, seem to run much better in the Windows XP Virtual Machine than it did on my old 2 GHz Thinkpad. Good luck.