LabVIEW journey starting point

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My memories of my first few days with LabVIEW are forever linked to people gathering in the lab, where we had a television, watching the events of Sept.11 take place.

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On a brighter note, this page started it all for me - just wanted to get a small job done.  Never knew I'd keep doing LabVIEW for 8+ years.

[muks]

Which version is this one?? Look at the menu items and those fonts. Just like a turbo c??

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muks wrote:

Which version is this one?? Look at the menu items and those fonts. Just like a turbo c??

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Version 5.1 - a classic. Look at the pre-VISA serial port VI's! I got so used to that VI interface, I held onto those old serial port VI's well into LabVIEW 7.1.

corrected: I was using 5.1. That looks even older, doesn't it?

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[muks]

I started with 6.1 and i can see the leap. To begin with the icons were colored, Is that "Temperature plot" a local variable? I still remember everytime disbling the auto tool selection and tabbing to get the required tool in 7.0.

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muks wrote:
I started with 6.1 and i can see the leap. To begin with the icons were colored, Is that "Temperature plot" a local variable? I still remember everytime disbling the auto tool selection and tabbing to get the required tool in 7.0.

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Some of use still tab.

[ian_fung]

I began using LabVIEW since version 5.1 (sometime in 1999)

The task was to create a software program that reads signal from a displacement sensor for checking run-out (CW/CCW) of given shaft bearings. The software program was to read the signal, convert and process it, and plot it on a graph (which will then be saved).

The reason for such software program was to replace the then existing tester/ checker that prints the graph unto carbon paper, which causing problem in keeping/ tracing records. The carbon paper also produces unwanted "powder" when tearing it off.

I was first asked to try it out with VC++, which I wasn't (and still not) good at it 😛 It took me at least two weeks and I was still on a blank sheet... It happened that NI was promoting it newly launched (if I am not wrong) LabVIEW 5.1 and its engineer came over and put up a impressive demo about LabVIEW... 

That was how I got started with LabVIEW... and the software program was completed (together with the air-bearing hardware setup) within three months time-frame... worth to mention that learning of LabVIEW was OTJ!

End of my story 😉