30 year old Commodore Amiga runs school district's AC & Heat

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 11:16 am

I had a client that was the maintenance department of a golf course, up until a year ago. Their irrigation system is also controlled via radio control from a Pentium 2 PC running Win 95. Software won't run on anything more up to date than that.

Been nursing some old beige box PC that runs it for a long time now.

http://woodtv.com/2015/06/11/1980s-comp ... at-and-ac/

Losbot · Post by **Losbot** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 12:06 pm

Those WERE/ARE solid machines. I miss mine.

Err · Post by **Err** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:41 pm

None of this surprises me. I still have a Packard Bell P120 that still runs as well as a Gateway P3 with Windows 2K and a Voodoo 5500 video card that still works. OEM PCs used to be very well built.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:05 pm

Most of the old equipment I have works just fine. Hard to get drivers, but work fine. That's the only reason I upgraded my server from a Celeron 366 up to an Athlon a few years back. But amazingly, the 10gb OS hard drive is still kicking just fine after nearly 10 years of use (not including the time it spend as a PC hard drive).

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:54 pm

Those old drives were much more reliable than newer ones. The data was written less densely on the platters, allowing more slop.

The tolerances on modern drives is so insane, that brand new out of the box, a drive nowadays is constantly doing error correction.