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It’s really hard to see an MP3 player from 2010 as “vintage technology in use” when there are PDP-11s still in use in nuclear power plants. Hell, I seem to recall there’s some plumbing company in the US that still uses a 1940s IBM electromechanical tabulator for their accounts.

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>there’s some plumbing company in the US that still uses a 1940s IBM.

Maybe not to that extreme but you’d be surprised how many industrial machines still running on early OSes and even with CRT monitors. If it’s not broken don’t fix it.

Almost all of the equipment I've bought for SMT assembly is still Windows NT driven. I've got 2 Juki pick and place machines running Japanese DOS - built like a tank and never had issues.

The worst part is that NT will keep running forever and is significantly more reliable than today’s Windows 10.

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