As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.
I work with a lot of industrial machines that use all sorts of weird old computers most have been running pretty much non stop for 20-30 years. HP unix, Irix, solaris and windows NT are the least obscure computers I come across. Every week it seems like i run into something new (old). We have a few running on PC98s with a weird english version of J-DOS, computers with RTOS’s like QNX and LynxOS and probably some other shit that i have yet to encounter.
Sadly newer machines just run windows or in a few lucky cases linux. The IT department always trys to manage the windows machines hooked up to the network and breaks them with their anti virus spyware crap.
I work with a lot of industrial machines that use all sorts of weird old computers most have been running pretty much non stop for 20-30 years. HP unix, Irix, solaris and windows NT are the least obscure computers I come across. Every week it seems like i run into something new (old). We have a few running on PC98s with a weird english version of J-DOS, computers with RTOS’s like QNX and LynxOS and probably some other shit that i have yet to encounter.
Sadly newer machines just run windows or in a few lucky cases linux. The IT department always trys to manage the windows machines hooked up to the network and breaks them with their anti virus spyware crap.
What a rarity. Another speaker of the forgotten magic… AIX, SunOS, and DEC Alpha to you my friend.