26 May
2016
26 May
'16
2:53 p.m.
From: Ethan O'Toole
Might not be a bad idea to make a wiki page somewhere
and ... source
generic replacements. This way vendor/part# of modern replacements can
be had for old belt drive floppys and computer tape drives?
I think the audio cassette deck enthusiasts do something like this
Excellent idea. The data can be put on the Computer History wiki; I've been
putting a lot of PDP-11 info up there. Let me know if you have data to post,
and can't get access.
From: Paul Koning
It clearly is not all that accurate. In a discussion
of "old" systems,
it mentions a system with "reported age 52 years" but it "runs on
windows server 2008 and is programmed in Java". ... A number of other
examples are similar. For example, a "56 year old" IRS system that
actually runs on an IBM z series machine from 2010.
Perhaps this is just sloppy writing, and they really 'the application is 52
years old, but it has been translated into Java'? And the latter one could
easily be System/360 code from 56 years ago, running on a z series.
Noel