This is Hooovahh

[altenbach]

But do you have a full set of LabVIEW 4.0 manuals? Back then, they included an impressive stack of books!

[LV_Pro]

I've got a box of LabVIEW 2.5 manuals AND the blue floppies. I don't actually have a machine with a floppy drive up and running at the moment (I just had the horrifying thought that I hope I used my default, home office machine, password).

Remember when you had to ask for specific instrument drivers and they sent them on a floppy?

[Hooovahh]

So ebay is a nice place for old LabVIEW stuff some times.  Here is some 3.1.1 manuals, of course it looks like it is missing some.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/National-Instruments-LabView-for-Windows-Software-Documentation-Manuals-V-3-...

All I have is LabVIEW 7.1 (one of my favorite) and an early version of DIAdem.

EDIT:  Heck I would just pay a few bucks if someone scanned the outside of a software box so I could print it out as if it were the real thing.

[SnowMule]

One of our EE's is "cleaning out his closet".... our common table by the lab looks like a museum.  MiniScribe hard drives, squeaky dialup modems, rather large disk drives...
"About 2.5MB."

[Hooovahh]

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@SnowMule wrote:

One of our EE's is "cleaning out his closet".... our common table by the lab looks like a museum.  MiniScribe hard drives, squeaky dialup modems, rather large disk drives...
"About 2.5MB."

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That's neat and all, but I think a better guage of bragging rights around these parts, is old NI / LabVIEW stuff.

[thoult]

I used to have a full set of LV 3-something manuals which I used as a backing material on a gas gun. If your projectile made it through the Kevlar successfully, there was little chance it would go on to penetrate all those books.

LabVIEW 3 might have been well before my time, but I definitely found it useful in catching the odd stray bullet 🙂

[PaulG.]

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@SnowMule wrote:

One of our EE's is "cleaning out his closet".... our common table by the lab looks like a museum.  MiniScribe hard drives, squeaky dialup modems, rather large disk drives...
"About 2.5MB."

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Ahh the good ole' days of Oliver Wendell Jones waiting for answers from his Banana Jr. 6000.

<whrrrr click .... whrrrr click ...>

[Hooovahh]

I spent a bit too much time recently searching for old software boxes to have on a shelf as a novelty.  I bought a Windows 3.1 box with manuals and 3.5 floppies for $15 shipped.  Maybe one day I'll have a LabVIEW 3 box to go next to it.  Since really it is just the box I'm interested in I tried scanning the 6 sides of the LabVIEW 7.1 box I have so I could upload it and others could print it out.  The scan didn't go so well, many subtleties in the art on the box that didn't translate well.  Attached was my failed attempt.

[Hooovahh]

Co-worker:  "That number is fine but can we see it on a graph?"

Hooovahh:  "BY THE POWER OF LABVIEW" (in Prince Adam voice)

[crossrulz]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

Co-worker:  "That number is fine but can we see it on a graph?"

Hooovahh:  "BY THE POWER OF LABVIEW" (in Prince Adam voice)

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Ahhh, cartoon references from when I was 2.  He-Man is awesome.  And I found a station that shows it on Saturday mornings!!!

But shouldn't it be by the power of National Instruments (referring to NI headquarters as a sacred castle)?