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Music on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?

Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion

(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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Somebody earlier said "Windows XP"
In my place of work there is a PC which performs what the bean counters would call a vital "show stopping" job in our organisation that has a speed of 133MHz and runs Windows 3.11

The only time anyone dared touch it recently was when the CRT monitor filled with ten years' accumulation of dust and caught fire....
(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:47, 3 replies)
Cool
I miss starting Windows from MSDOS
(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:56, closed)
Damn
that pre-dates our still-in-production-use-public-facing webserver running on NT4

Uptime in the years at the moment...
(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:41, closed)
Legend has it that until not that long ago
some six or seven year in fact, the uplink Sky uses near Southampton was controlled by an old 3.11 box - and the backup was a series of identical 3.11 boxes sat alongside, in case the 'live' one went bang.
Think how much a black screen would cost Sky...would you trust that to 3.11 in the year 2004?
(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:08, closed)

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