22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
3:08 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Liam Proven wrote:
Shocking headline: "23 year old computer still in
daily use at a
silver mine. MicroVAX 3100 running openVMS on 12mb memory."
Pictures:
http://www.reddit.com/tb/sl3ll
Comments:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/sl3ll/23_year_old_computer_stil…
And so what?
Here's one of our machines at the institute, a SUN 4/260, put into service
in 1988:
SunOS Release 4.1.1 (AZU-MZ-XP-MODEM-SCSI2p) #9: Wed
Jan 23 16:12:56 MET 2008
Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
cpu = Sun 4/200 Series
mem = 32768K (0x2000000)
avail mem = 31653888
[...]
Christian