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Originally Posted by ToSeek
Is this going to turn into one of these "Well, when I was a grad student, I had to walk twenty miles uphill to the computer lab barefoot, enter the data by beating on the side of the computer with a two-by-four, get the output by having it tattooed on my stomach with red-hot needles - and I was grateful!" threads?  |
Well, not if I can help it. I won't post any scans of that old roll of printed grocery tape with photon counts from prime-focus scanner operated from the platform riding up and down the dome slit opening at the Crossley telescope. (but the trasformation [i]has[/] been remarkable considering that some of us aren't all that old)
On the other hand, anyone who has a viable idea on how to bring data-reduction software into the 21st century is much more than welcome to present a plan here...