LabVIEW at 20!

[jdebuhr]

I first started using LabVIEW in 1995.. It was Version 3.0 or maybe 3.1 on a Windows 3.1 machine. Then I used LV3.1 on a WIN95 machine.

I even took the Labview Basics and Advanced courses in 1996, Back when Basic was 3 days and Advanced was 2. Ironically I will be taking LV intermediate I and II this year

We moved to 4.0 shortly after it was released, then used all the versions up through 6i..  Then I was laid off around the release of LV7 and did not get to use it until last year when we upgraded from 6.01 to 7.1, now I am on LV8.

the nice thing is where I work now, I am the ONLY Test Engineer and most of our newer test prorgrams running are in LV8.

[JeanPierre]

I started using LabVIEW near Roswell in 1947. Back then we scanvenged it from a computer in the wreckage but it is not until we could reproduce what has become the 68000 and the 3½ drive that it spreaded through human technology.

Message Edité par Jean-Pierre Drolet le 02-09-2006 11:41 AM

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

I guess that the was first and most well known "computer crash" event on Earth?

[altenbach]

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@Jean-Pierre Drolet wrote:
I started using LabVIEW near Roswell in 1947. Back then we scanvenged it from a computer in the wreckage but it is not until we could reproduce what has become the 68000 and the 3½ drive that it spreaded through human technology.

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JPD on the left? 🙂

Message Edited by altenbach on 02-09-2006 11:32 AM

[tst]

No, sorry, Christian. You have the wrong picture. That's agent K.

I believe you meant to post this picture.

[JeanPierre]

I should use a more recent photo... Add some wrinkles and gray hair!

By the way I found what caused the crash: a non-indexing output of a zero iteration for-loop...

[Enrique]

My very first encounter with LabVIEW was on a Mac, I don't remember which version but other than nothing happened. A year or two later, I used version 4 for several control  and instrumentation projects at the university, between1997 and 1998. I was hooked. Then I start working and didn't used until sometime 2000 somebody learned that I knew LabVIEW and needed to control a robotic device to test some biometric authentication software. That was with LabVIEW 5. Because of that I thought it was a good idea to create a biometric authentication toolkit for LabVIEW, so I purchased LabVIEW 6i and created BiometricsVIEW in 2001. Since then LabVIEW and myself never separated again.

[JFMoynihan]

I had to teach myself LabVIEW (6i) for two projects in early 2001.  Occassionally, I've gone back to look at those to remind myself of how much I've learned and how far LabVIEW has come in just a few years.  One application runs a test on contactors that carry up to 600 amps.  While the application has always worked well, I don't think I'd show the code to anyone today.  The block diagram is poorly wired and documented.  When I look at it today, I wonder how it ever worked so reliably.  The other application, a simple temperature monitoring program that periodically records a record to a text file, has run uniterrupted for nearly 5 years.  Although to programmers it would look primitive, that simple program allowed my customer to gain approval to conduct in-house product certification testing.  It has saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars in testing fees.  I could repeat this story time and time again.  Over the past 5 years, NI has allowed me to build a loyal customer base by equipping me with ever-improving, well supported LabVIEW software.   Here's to the next 20 years.

[Khalid]

First came across LabVIEW (version 3.0 / Windows 3.1) at University in 1994.  Still have the assignment sheets from the lab!  Maybe I can make a fortune off of them on eBay some day?? 

-Khalid

[desktoplabs]

In 1986 I was working in New York City at the Craft Museum, on the Robot Show. LabVIEW was version 1.2 and in bitmapped Black and White, and only on the Macintosh (yes there was a contagous spirit of innovation there, as now).

The pedagogy (learning theory) was in LabVIEW from the first instance. That special generous quality remains present, it's a renewable resource.

LabVIEW has enabled my projects from science, to industry to art. It's a high quality innovative gift, an enabling gift. Most of my lasting contributions (with the exception of my two perfect children, and my family relationships) I can attribute to LabVIEW.

It's hard to imagine something you imagine that can't be done with LabVIEW.