[Equest-users] 20 years of BLDG-SIM

[Melissa Crowe]

Y’all don’t know me but I see you know each other well.

As an infrequent contributor but avid reader of the lists, I write to thank the list progenitors and all contributors for sharing your experience, knowledge, and humor!   I’ve become a bit maudlin over the  text mining graphs as I see the end of an era… whence cometh the phoenix?

I am a latecomer to DOE2. In the 1990s at ADL we used the DOE2 hourly load profiles for commercial buildings (I believe done at LBL by Joe, etal) in all kinds of building equipment studies for the DOE.  Discovered the guis even later, VisualDOE  in 2005, and finally eQuest in 2010.   As I change my mind frequently and want to look at all the angles I am way too impatient for Open Studio and EnergyPlus.  As far as modeling goes, dark roast (with a shot).

Cheers

BTW, Man-Fraction is why too high on these lists.



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From: Joe Huang <yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com<mailto:yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2019 7:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] 20 years of BLDG-SIM


Chris,

You're welcomed! The history behind DrawBDL was that I got tired of drawing little sketches on paper to visualize what a model looked like, and wrote a little program that read the coordinates and turned it into an input file for a Unix-based sketching program at the Lab (TELLEGRAF). I then showed it to a programmer friend who said he'd try turning it into a PC program using Turbo Pascal. In 3 weeks time he had a working prototype, but being a real computer programmer Jim said that we were only half done.  So true that was!

One reason for the gaudy primary colors for the surfaces was that Jim was concerned about what graphics processors people had on their PCs and so stuck with 16-bit color. PCs were so limited in power then that when I went to DOE in the early 90's and demo'd DrawBDL on somebody's PC there, the drawing was so slow (blink ! another window! ) that I stopped the demo to avoid losing the audience.

Those were the days.

Joe
On 3/8/2019 5:29 AM, Jones, Christopher via Equest-users wrote:
Yes, time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like bananas.

I began my modeling journey in the fall of 1994. I was given a rolling ruler, a tape measure and a clip board to audit a small commercial building. Having gathered the building information, I went back to the office and opened the DOE2 Basics, fired up the old 8086 DOS box and started typing. We were using Acrosoft DOE2.1e and Brief for the text editor. I still program my text editor to use the Brief keystroke short cuts. The 40 MB hard drive filled up pretty quickly. Upgrading cost $1 per MB – a 350 MB hard drive cost $350.

I was very grateful when I discovered DrawBDL for debugging the geometry – thanks to Joe!


Christopher R Jones, P.Eng.
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From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Joe Huang via Equest-users
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2019 9:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] 20 years of BLDG-SIM


Wow, has it been twenty years already?  It doesn't feel like it.  I still remember a time back then when there was an informal meeting about the future of building energy simulation programs at the ACEEE Conference, probably in the late 80's or early 90's.  Jeff Haberl looked at me and said that the DOE-2 Group should have a  Home Page.  I looked back at Jeff and asked, "what's a  'home page'" ?

Joe

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On 3/7/2019 6:02 PM, Erik Kolderup via Equest-users wrote:
Bill Bishop, BLDG-SIM artist in residence.

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On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:47 PM Bishop, Bill via Equest-users <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>> wrote:
Congrats Jason!

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