Quote from: RE on May 31, 2024, 12:30 PM

Quote from: TDoS on May 29, 2024, 03:16 PMI thought k-Dog was an EE? That seems like far more innate capability than being a history buff or messing with old PCs.

He is an EE.  One of the few around who still knows enough about older computers to be able to get them working again.  One of the ones he restored was an original Cray supercomputer as I recall from my tour of the museum.  They also had old IBM mainframes with the tape drives and an Apple IIe desktop with the floppy disk drives.  Old CRT displays, etc.  Just finding the parts to make them function was a challenge, then the old languages they run on aren't used anymore either.  Fun job for a tinkerer like Kdog.

RE

It gave me the background to reverse engineer DYNAMO into JavaScript.  Dynamo ran the Limits to growth Model on an IBM mainframe. 

Work is proceeding well.  There will be a website where graphs can be generated at the touch of a button from model equations.  The original program was 10,000 lines of IBM assembly code.  600 man hours of labor.  I hope my effort will not require the same investment.  But beyond the code I also have to become an expert dynamic modeler.  So when all is said and done, I'll have a chunk of time invested no matter how I cut the cheese.

Duplicating the standard run is the first goal.  A user will be able to press a button to copy the standard run equations to a clipboard and then they paste the equations into a file.

Then buttons in the dynamo simulator load and run the file to produce the graphs.

I won't be making the procedure any simpler.  Making users create the equation file could mean they will get an idea of what is going on.  Which is why I'll endure this pain.