Windows 3.1 brings Paris airport to a halt

Can you imagine trying to support it?

I'm guessing as time went on it's became one of those problems which becomes harder to move on or handle. End up at a point where it's easier to just leave it, for 5 years or so. But not for what 15 years?! I would say that the IT director over there needs to be shown the door.

amigafan2003 said:
I've got one Amiga running a website.
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I expect nothing less from you :D
 
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Quite a few big retailers still run stock backends on Unix based systems using hardware released in the late 70s/early 80s.
 
Caged said:
Do IBM Power systems running code written in the times of the AS/400 count? Because if so then every bank everywhere.
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Pain to work with but bombproof :)
George Hincapie said:
Windows XP on the new Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.
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Us navy pay ms a lot of cash for bespoke xp support too.
Rroff said:
Quite a few big retailers still run stock backends on Unix based systems using hardware released in the late 70s/early 80s.
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Or as400 as above.
 
neil_g said:
Or as400 as above.
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I should brush up my COBOL heh seems less and less people with experience of it any more and quite a lot of backend systems programmed using it still in production use. I think we still have a dozen IBM system line servers in the main racks at work.
 
Rroff said:
I should brush up my COBOL heh seems less and less people with experience of it any more and quite a lot of backend systems programmed using it still in production use. I think we still have a dozen IBM system line servers in the main racks at work.
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Yeah right, I swear every as400 engineer we've had out has been about 80 :D
 
I work 'somewhere' that deals with private information and the computers have loads of new stuff Windows 7 etc..

It also has access to the internet, google chrome is the browser and uses google drive.

Personally I think its a massive security risk, but what do I know.
 
Nothing wrong with some IBM Power hardware (I have colleagues who have been putting in latest Power8 kit recently). I'm aware of quite a few "older" Unix systems we run for some Customers ... some of them were put in when I was still in secondary school (I'm 40).

I'm always surprised how many systems there still are running Tru64 ...
 
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We've got a few 133Mhz 486's running our stock system at work. Not sure how old the software is but it's been there 20 years and we got it 2nd hand.
 
A friend of mine works for ScotRail and they still use a modified/embedded version of Win 3.1 on their trains. Still seems to do the trick.

Terminal_Boy said:
Ericsson standard issue laptops still run Windows NT...
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God I hated Win NT lol. It was so locked down, and just so... "plain" looking! Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) on the other hand was lovely to work with. I preferred 2000 to XP.
 
I imagine a lot of public sector organisations are still on XP. We're transitioning to 8.1 at work soon, though other areas in the country have had it for a while. Last I heard it'd be getting rolled out for our area at the end of this year, but I've heard nothing the past few months so I imagine that's been delayed again. Hopefully it'll alleviate a lot of the performance issues we have day-to-day, and if nothing else it'll be good to be in a more up-to-date version of IE. XP simply isn't very good for multi-tasking at all these days.

Sainsbury's were on XP when I worked there some years back, I imagine they still are. Their back-end EPOS systems (plus the tills themselves) were on 2000, selfscan machines run XP as did the customer scales. Asda was a mix of XP plus Windows Server 2008 but with some really, really old systems running their main inventory application (as in running via Telnet on a CLI old).
 
I work at an Asda photocentre and We have some pretty old kit too. The 2 Fuji kiosks that people put pictures through are Single core celerons with 1GB ram (They've just been updated from Windows 95 to Windows XP lol), Our main photo machine is 31 years old and its being powered by a Pentium 2 MMX PC i think its like 333MHz that runs Windows NT not sure which version but its got the Windows 95 icons. Our main rendering server has just been replaced with a beat twin xeon machine with a nice quadro and 32GB's RAM but the one before that was an old xeon that i don't know how it was still working as it survived a flood and the motherboard had gone partially rusty haha.
 
I put my bankcard in an rbs machine last week, only for the whole thing to jam up for a couple minutes then it crashed and rebooted, despite the frustration of losing my bank card, I did laugh when I saw it was windows xp.

we still have a 386 pc at work that's now so old its gone from beige to smokers yellow, i'm not sure anyone knows what its doing but I wouldn't like to turn it off just incase.. Reliable though.
 
Wow, and i thought the one laptop in our office still running xp was bad (it's only used as a datalogger for one test rig these days though).

We have the irony though that the entire company (even non engineering depts) are kitted out with top of the line mobile workstation type "laptops" yet 90% of the time you're waiting on the network to upload excel files.
 
I miss my companies MPE servers. Slow, awful file management, but they were built to last. The main box was about 10 years old and it's last reboot was about 8 years before we moved on to linux. Still remember my training day when the manager showed me the manual "huh, that's dated the year I was born"
 
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