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Re:Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the ... by Spooky23 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:41PM (#49858794)
A friend discovered that one of the more modern pieces of equipment instrumenting those old signals was an ancient WYSE terminal from the late 90s that had been bricked over during a station project.

They moved a booth or something and the compartment it was stuffed in was missed during the cleanout. The thing was working for at least 20 years and may still be there!

I worked with a client that had a cash disbursement system working on an ancient dBase 16-bit application. They had a very difficult to change process that required multiple transactions because the system couldn't represent the dollar amounts appropriately.

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