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7:58 p.m.
A nice and illustrated article :
http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_…
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22 Feb
9:08 p.m.
The comments make me sad. To see what the young 'uns say, you'd
think it was maybe a matter of a weel or so to replace an old process
control computer running a nuclear power plant with an iPad.
Or a CNC system running an 84 inch spinning lathe built in 1981.
...or (pick your "working" application).
To these people, everthing is an iPad, XBox, iPhone or Web server, I
guess.
--Chuck
On 23 Feb 2012 at 4:58, St?phane Tsacas wrote:
A nice and illustrated article :
http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_anc
ient_computers_in_use_today.html
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7:25 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
To these people, everthing is an iPad, XBox, iPhone or Web server, I
guess.
It's the mindset that computers are toys, games, or accessories or
something similar.
For others the computer is a tool. If it works, you use it. A 20-year old
hammer works every bit as well as a new one.
The university I worked for still ran an early 80's vintage Amdhal
mainframe well into the late 1990's for the sole purpose of running SPSS,
because the cost of running the mainframe plus the yearly license for SPSS
was cheaper than a site desktop license.
Finally, SPSS got fed up supporting the mainframe version (I think the
university was the last user using that version) and offered low enough
desktop licensing to make it worth moving to that model.
8:07 a.m.
>>>
The university I worked for still
ran an early 80's vintage Amdhal
mainframe well into the late 1990's for the sole purpose of running SPSS,
because the cost of running the mainframe plus the yearly license for SPSS
was cheaper than a site desktop license.
<<<<
Oddly enough the University computer centre where I was employed bought its
first SUN for a similar (in reverse) reason - it was significantly cheaper
to buy the SUN and an Ada compiler for it than to get the Ada compiler for
the Honeywell mainframe.
As it happens I don't think the /users/ who were demanding we support Ada
ever even tried using it so we got a nice new toy and wasted less money.
3:19 p.m.
In article <4F455933.28987.2A791F8 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
The comments make me sad. [...]
On the contrary, the comments (and the attitude that goes with it),
keep my skills valuable. Because they'll soon find out that my
expertise is needed when they try to do it their way.
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On 23 Feb 2012 at 16:19, Richard wrote:
On the contrary, the comments (and the attitude that
goes with it),
keep my skills valuable. Because they'll soon find out that my
expertise is needed when they try to do it their way.
Ah, I can see it, being asked to work on gear, hearing aids, coke-
bottle bottom spectacles, walker and all. :)
--Chuck
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