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Re: FRC Blogged - The 2015 Control System Request for Proposa
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Originally Posted by ebarker
Before there was National Instruments, with their fancy cRIO system for test and automation ..... There was the HP1000, a real time test and automation system that ran ... yes, you guessed it... FORTRAN
HP1000
Yes indeed, FORTRAN on the 1000 predated NI and the cRIO. |
Oh, come on if we're going to go to tried and true systems, I vote for my first imbedded experience. An 8080 with numeric keypad programmed in hex and managing a 2K memory stack. Or my first closed loop feedback system on an analog computer programmed with jumpers. 
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