[vcf-midatlantic] C64 workhorse survivor

[Dave McGuire]

On 09/28/2016 01:46 PM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> My boss used to work for a building automation company. Their original
> product was based around the C64. They had them installed in buildings
> for years and years... the program was on a cartridge so with no
> moving parts there was little to go wrong. It took a lot of convincing
> to get their customers to update to something newer in the early
> 2000s.

  It's certainly understanding that they'd take some convincing.  Why
would they want to change?  Don't fix it if it ain't broke.  The
industrial landscape is littered with stories about how a
fully-functioning, simple, easily-maintainable system is replaced by
something "new" which is supposed to be "better" (but they can rarely
tell you how), is inevitably PC-based, and turns out to be an utter pile
of crap.

  Care to place some bets on the longevity of the "newer" system as
compared to the system it replaced?

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA