• @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    Having worked in tech fields, legacy devices as old as 20 years can pop up occasionally, functioning or not. Once was told a story where this tech was hired to fix a highschool bell system and the whole thing was running on windows 98. This took place in 2015 or so

    • @vrek
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      156 months ago

      I work in a field that is considered by many high tech. I have personally seen a system in use today that duel boots windows 2000 and windows 98.

      The product it’s used by is old generations and the system does not have any network access but still must be supported by government regulation for several more years…

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          6 months ago

          Just another turning of the Wheel every time you boot it up.

          I have won again, Lews Therin. Flicker.

      • Toes♀
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        76 months ago

        Yeah there’s a lot of MRI machines out there where the brains are running windows 98

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          66 months ago

          I think it was 2017 we got rid of our last system running freedos in a console since the original program required do to operate…

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        66 months ago

        Few years ago there was a story in a local paper about building automation systems running on Commadore 64 and still doing fine. Build by some company in the 80’s. They weren’t online, so no security issues.

        Tried to find the article online but no luck. It would have been in local language anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          46 months ago

          Even if they was online, I doubt a lot of people have the knowledge for hack a commodore 64.

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            16 months ago

            I’d imagine it would have been some gprs-modem through an adapter for sms notifications, that was added afterwards in the 90’s

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              There is a device for connect it to internet, via an ethernet cable and with some software, for bbs by example.

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                16 months ago

                Getting a C64 to host an remote interface page would definitely be “beyond the call of duty”.

        • @vrek
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          46 months ago

          In this case I do partially agree with it. They are for medical implants and since the expected lifetime of the device is 10 years we need to be able to support them for 10 years after the last surgery.

          If the dog eats your controller which allows you to turn on and off your device we need to be able to sell you a new controller and NOT tell you “sorry, you need to spend several hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills to replace the device and go through a traumatic surgery to install it”

          Now optimally my company would make a modern program that duplicates the technology but is compatible with modern computers but since are no longer making money on these old devices they don’t want to invest the time and money. So yeah…

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      96 months ago

      The company I work for has no control over the air conditioning in one of our facilities because it’s automated and running on a computer system from the 80’s. No one knows how it works.

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          It’s my ass to freeze, not to pay for. I can switch between uncomfortably hot or cold; I just have to switch a lever (on top of the roof of the building) but I’m not really a heights kind of person.

    • ArxCyberwolf
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      46 months ago

      The restaurant I work at still uses Windows XP on one of its main tills. It breaks down and freezes constantly.

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      16 months ago

      I still do monthly service checks to industrial computers that use win3.11, 2000 and unix from early 90’s. When machines that costs even up to million to replace require legacy os, you scrounge up older hardware to run them as long as you can.