ALT Founders of National Instruments, Dr James Truchard, Jeff Kodosky, and Bill Nowlin.

ALT A screenshot of the original tweet, with the some words crossed out so it now read "Things that can get in the bin: notifications on my phone"

ALT LabVIEW 2020 project window showing a blue question mark icon next to all build specifications. An error dialog shows error 7 when trying to access the build spec properties.

ALT An image of a CD-ROM labelled LabVIEW 4.0 for Sega CD/Mega-CD. The disc is marked NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS CONFIDENTIAL.

ALT Photo of LabVIEW 1.0 running on an Apple Macintosh.

ALT Press release from Computerworld, Volume 20, Issue 25 (June 23 1986). Text reads: "National Instruments Corp. has announced Labview, a software product for the Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh. Labview is said to combine interactive graphics with programming technology developed by National Instruments, called graphical diagramming. Labview reportedly provides an environment for developing scientific applications that integrate instrument control, data acquisition, data analysis, data entry, data management and report generation. Graphical diagramming allows the user to draw a diagram and automatically run it. According to the vendor, there is no need for the user to write, debug, and document the code. Labview is priced at $1,995. National Instruments, 12109 Technology Blvd, Austin, Texas 78727."

ALT Screenshot from NI's forum. The snippet reads "In addition, we are informing you that this will be the final release of LabVIEW on macOS. Starting with releases in 2024, LabVIEW will continue to be available on Windows and Linux OSes. We understand that this change of availability likely impacts your active and future plans. We have the following alternatives available for you to consider."

ALT Photo of Mike Oldfield’s Killing Fields CD, showing it was printed in West Germany.

ALT LabVIEW block diagram showing all Chinese text, except for a single terminal label.