> Us, ten years after generating the certificate: "Who could have possibly foreseen that a computer science department would still be here ten years later."
This was why there was a Y2K bug. Most of that code was written in the 80s, during the Reagan era. Nobody expected civilization to make it to the year 2000.
And they were mostly right! Not many 80s machines were still being used in 1999, but lots of software that had roots to then was being used. Data formats and such have a tendency to stick around.
It is effectively trivial to buy millions of dollars of hardware to upgrade your stuff when compared with paying for existing software to be rewritten for a new platform.
Or better, its drivers run in what Windows version?