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Re:1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat a... by ganeumann on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:22AM (#9706024)
You do wonder if those staff people would be ok turning it on and off by hand if they got the "$1.5 to $2 million" needed to replace the system.

That said, I'm pretty sure I could get an Amiga emulator running on a Raspberry Pi for a lot less than $1.5 million.

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Re:1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat a... by cwyers on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:16AM (#9706384)
As has been said multiple times before, it's not $2 million to keep this kid's school project running for another 30 years, it's $2 million for a better HVAC automation system. They've probably pissed away multiples of $2 million in energy costs not having a better system in place the past 30 years.
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Re:1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat a... by ganeumann on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:41PM (#9706998)
No kidding, but that's not how the article was written. My second paragraph was a comment on that.

Every budget ever written stuffs things that management thinks can be put off until later into funding for things that absolutely need to be done today.

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