Subj : Re: Today in History - 1
To   : Ross Branham
From : Dave Drum
Date : Mon Aug 07 2023 05:25 am

-=> Ross Branham wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> I moved on to the Commode Door 64 after the TRaSh-80. A number of those
 DD> are still in service (the motherboards anyweay) with NOAA reporting on
 DD> tides and monitoring costal oceanographic data.
 DD> And one of the last remaining video rental companies in USA (Family
 DD> Video) ran their whole company on a Tandy 1000 using home brewed Linux
 DD> software until their demise last year. It was head-quartered just a mile
 DD> or so from my house

 RB> I would like to know what other old computers are being
 RB> used for daily business use. It's amazing to me that
 RB> they're still in use as old as they are.

Check many state agencis and school districts here in Illinois. One of
the guys I meet with monthly for pizza and beverage got his current gig
w/Illinois Department on Aging because he can maintain and modify the
COCOL code running on their old Burroughs mainframe.  Bv)=


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