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[Lee Courtney]

There are still HP3000 systems being used in business critical functions,
12(?) years after the HP end-of-life date (no manufacturing or support)
for the product line. (From a business continuity perspective that's
insane.) Hardware support is not based on new manufacturer parts with
warranty, but cannibalization from existing systems. And in that phase of
the life cycle cannibalization leads to to fewer and fewer sources of
parts, and increased prices. Until the point where the market has moved off
of the hardware, for example onto Windows or emulation, and the commercial
market collapses.

Lee Courtney

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 5:52 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 15, 2022, at 6:49 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > We occasionally hear of aged computers being employed in the nuclear
> > power industry, certain military applications or long lifed medical
> > equipment for example.  I imagine that these machines can have a
> > significant commercial value long after their contemporaries which are
> > not involved in these roles.
>
> An example: in the past year, a CDC mainframe (the last generation of what
> started with the 6600 in 1964) was taken out of service at Vandenberg SFB.
> And actually, the architecture is still in use, but the replacement is an
> emulator rather than a "real" machine.
>
>         paul
>
>
>

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