New Battery monitoring software update?

[Tooney]

Having written that I should clarify that I wrote the first software that earned me money in 1971, so at it for 17 years

Programmed in FORTRAN, right?

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[whitex]

Programmed in FORTRAN, right?

Punch cards?

 

[simcity]

Programmed in FORTRAN, right?

Frank is the man. Proper Assembler, no less I reckon.

 

[Tooney]

Frank is the man. Proper Assembler, no less I reckon.

After keying your FORTRAN program onto cards, wait your turn to load your card deck into the IBM 1620 and see if it compiled. If not, back to the card punch to try again.
Those were the days.

 

[f1eng]

Programmed in FORTRAN, right?

Fortran on punch cards. Imperial College, where I was a student, had 2 computers and only students on computing courses had use of them.

 

[f1eng]

Frank is the man. Proper Assembler, no less I reckon.

Assembler came later, not whilst still a student.

 

[f1eng]

After keying your FORTRAN program onto cards, wait your turn to load your card deck into the IBM 1620 and see if it compiled. If not, back to the card punch to try again.
Those were the days.

My first place of work had an IBM 1620 and they were generous enough to let me put my personal stuff on the back of the weekend deck so it ran for free if the works stuff was finished!
Imperial had, iirc, a CDC6600 and IBM 360.

 

[Vim Schrotnock]

I just brought my car in for a change to summer tires (expecting a major snowstorm in the next few weeks...?), and I got the WRW1 battery monitor installed along with a recommendation not to charge the battery to over 80%. I received a new battery in June 2024.

I just can't believe a major car company has an EV with a recall covering every single car they've sold in the first four years and I'm just getting this recommendation now, after driving the car for 48K miles and 4-1/2 years. Of course, there is no remedy other than 'just don't charge your car to over 80%. I know this affects us all, but I am just gobsmacked by the absolute incompetence of Porsche and how they are completely disregarding their customers. What exactly am I supposed to do if I continue to charge my car to 85%, as I've been doing for the last 4-1/2 years. I should reduce my daily charge to 80%, and if I'm going on a trip - don't charge above 80%? Certainly the 'recall' covers Porsche in case I have a fire. I just can't believe how badly they have messed this up. Taycan sales are down 40-50% and Porsche is completely deserving of this massive rejection of their product. Idiots.

Sorry about the rant, but I am quite intolerant of Porsche apologists who defend the brand pretty much regardless of how badly they perform. I'm a firm believer in a demanding customer driving excellence in products, and this is a prime example. OK, a few deep breaths and I'm good...?

 

[Tooney]

Sorry about the rant, but I am quite intolerant of Porsche apologists who defend the brand pretty much regardless of how badly they perform. I'm a firm believer in a demanding customer driving excellence in products, and this is a prime example. OK, a few deep breaths and I'm good...?

+1

 

[Tooney]

I just brought my car in for a change to summer tires (expecting a major snowstorm in the next few weeks...?), and I got the WRW1 battery monitor installed along with a recommendation not to charge the battery to over 80%. I received a new battery in June 2024.

Just so you are aware, WRW1 is not a battery monitoring software update. It is an update to improve external communications of the Taycan. Some owners have received it OTA:
https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...ring-software-update.24448/page-6#post-374745
Latest info on the battery monitoring software is that the remedy will be available in 2nd half 2025.

 

[F1Ruaraidh]

Fortran on punch cards. Imperial College, where I was a student, had 2 computers and only students on computing courses had use of them.

PDP 11 ftw!!

 

[f1eng]

PDP 11 ftw!!

I remember the PDP11 coming along.
I remember a 5 megabyte hard drive (I think) the size of a washing machine needing 3-phase power when we installed the first CAD/CAE system at Williams in 1985. It ran on a VAX machine and cost £50k per seat.
I was system manager, in the absence of anybody else who had used computers, and remember learning to backup everything every 10 minutes or so since it crashed so often and shading part of the engine cover took 20 minutes to compute.
Those were the days (not) but it allowed me to do things I couldn't before.

 

[GTSS]

Didn’t GM and Jaguar also try such monitoring software for LG pouch cell batteries? We know how that ended.

 

[F1Ruaraidh]

I remember the PDP11 coming along.
I remember a 5 megabyte hard drive (I think) the size of a washing machine needing 3-phase power when we installed the first CAD/CAE system at Williams in 1985. It ran on a VAX machine and cost £50k per seat.
I was system manager, in the absence of anybody else who had used computers, and remember learning to backup everything every 10 minutes or so since it crashed so often and shading part of the engine cover took 20 minutes to compute.
Those were the days (not) but it allowed me to do things I couldn't before.

They were epic when we first started surfacing engine ports fully using UniG. Early days of fully machined heads using CNC and getting rid of the porting shop variability using hand held die grinders. Ah F1 was so simple in those days (DFR when I started).

 

[F1Ruaraidh]

Didn’t GM and Jaguar also try such monitoring software for LG pouch cell batteries? We know how that ended.

Porsche have gone further by redesigning the battery for J1.2 and then making it backwardly compatible. That's a good bit of engineering insurance.

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