At my work we're dealing with this... $200,000 medical eye cameras, which have control software that only works in XP or perhaps 7. The camera maker's response is "buy a newer camera, the software comes free". IIRC Jon Chapman's XT-IDE business came out of supporting XT and AT class machines that were used to run production lines. -J On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:49 AM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 6/2/21 9:07 AM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
What they consider old school is rather new school for us.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01431-y
But I know there are people here running some really old active systems.
New school? We're teaching the classes. ;-)
My friends work on the railroad, they've kept systems from the early 1900's running. ;-) Some of those contactors are beginning to wear out. They finally got federal funding that wasn't tied to 'BumFrell' Iowa for safety systems. So some of the systems are being updated.
My first job was embedded systems and it was expected that those systems would be in use for 30 or 40 years. Manufacturers (smelting, concrete, etc.) had production systems that had very expensive and specialize control systems that I think keeps a few of us employed finding older systems and parts.
My Smart Home stuff that's tied to the cloud scares the hell out of me. If the vendor decides that they're not making money on the cloud service and everything can become bricked (I have a way around it). But just look at Revolv (Google killed it), Wink, Staples Connect, TCP Connect, Karotz, ... all gone bye-bye.
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