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Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My oscilloscope still runs on windows 98. Back in it's days, it cost about as much as a car, and it still works. No reason to throw this standalone machine out.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Go into an average US factory and see how much still runs on 95-Vista

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

The places I've seen in my area from various jobs, including IT and network installation sometimes still ran on an OS that pre-dates fucking DOS for their machinery. 😳

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

I also recently had to work with a data logger that was from the era of windows 95. Luckily the software attached to it also supported windows 7.