16 Jan
2004
16 Jan
'04
11:51 a.m.
My father has two of those in his garage. I remember visiting his
office in the very late 50's and early 60's and wathing him work on
them. There was Burroughs and one other It was some kind of IBM and
was programmed by pegboard and punch cards.
James
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Not only on this list but everywhere. I would say
thousands of companies
still run computers that are 20-30 years old because there was never any
need to upgrade. And I'm not just talking about embedded process control
type applications either.
Heck, in around 1999 I was contacted by a nursery in San Jose that was
finally retiring their 1950s Burroughs accounting machine. I passed it on
to the Computer History Museum where it sits today.