[TowerTalk] NEC 5.0 ???

[chuck.gooden]

Was the cost of $110.00 the cost for the software  or the cost of the manual?  I thought the software was much more.
-------- Original message --------From: "Lux, Jim" <jim at luxfamily.com> Date: 3/11/21  5:50 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: towertalk at contesting.com Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] NEC 5.0 ??? On 3/11/21 12:15 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:>>>>> "Jerry Burke, the primary author of the antenna-modeling software NEC,>> died on February 14. He had been suffering from cancer. NEC (numerical>> electromagnetics code) evolved out of a program called BRACT, which>> Burke and others developed in 1967. The most common public version is>> NEC-2. -- Thanks to Jim Breakall, WA3FET">>>> I didn't realize that the roots of NEC went back this far.> Jerry produced amazing results especially considering what he> had to work with in 1967 (IBM 360, keypunch, line printer, etc).> Probably written in the wonderful language of Fortran.> Those were the days.Probably more likely a CDC 6600 or 7600, when those became available - Those were the big iron for numerical computation back then (60 bit single precision).  That's what I was using from around 1974 to 1980 at various places.   But yes, keypunch, lineprinter, maybe a RJE terminals.https://computing.llnl.gov/history shows them getting a 7600 in 69, in addition to the 7600 they got in '64 (which replaced the IBM 7030) (it was Serial number 1)NEC2.f (from 1980)C     PROGRAM NEC(INPUT,TAPE5=INPUT,OUTPUT,TAPE11,TAPE12,TAPE13,TAPE14,C 1TAPE15,TAPE16,TAPE20,TAPE21)CC     NUMERICAL ELECTROMAGNETICS CODE (NEC2)  DEVELOPED AT LAWRENCEC     LIVERMORE LAB., LIVERMORE, CA.  (CONTACT G. BURKE AT 415-422-8414C     FOR PROBLEMS WITH THE NEC CODE.  FOR PROBLEMS WITH THE VAX IMPLEM-C     ENTATION, CONTACT J. BREAKALL AT 415-422-8196 OR E. DOMNING AT 415C     422-5936)C     FILE CREATED 4/11/80.The VAX 11/780 came out very late in the 70s (I was doing heavy systems development on a multiprocessor PDP-11/70 in 1979, and we wished we had one - I actually got my hands on one in probably 1980-81)NEC had been around for a while by then.There are some interesting papers/conference presentations by Jerry, etc on the history of NEC.______________________________________________________________________________________________TowerTalk mailing listTowerTalk at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk