Re: What companies are still using old technology

[Wolfgang <w@work.com>]

May I can give input to that.

Our Lab has two test systems which are not anymore supported by the 
vendor but are still used by us.
The PC's driving these test systems needs to be an old intel 386'.
we tried to swap newer pc's in but this was not working.

I guess that is the main reason why some guys still order old stuff.
The old systems works still fine and new systems cost a fortune.
So better to spend a few 100 bucks on buying old stuff rather than 
spending thousands for a whole new system.

In our case we had to spend a couple of $100 to find one of the old pc's 
but a new test system would have cost us $300.000. Sounds like a bargain 
to me!

Some applications do not require a 2GHz Ferrari processor.
Guess why the old Z80 8-bit is still around.





Bible John wrote:
> I got a new job working in QC at a electronics company in the Bay Area. 
> Its amazing, but I have seen people order floppy disk drives, ORB Power 
> adaptors, and yesterday someone ordered a 500MB hard drive. 
>
> Richard since you are the DOS expert, and the expert with old technology 
> whom are the kinds of companies ordering these supplies? What business 
> are they in that relies so much on floppy disk drives (I saw one order 
> of like 6 floppy disk drives to one company) and who would buy a 500MB 
> hard drive?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John
>
> PS- Richard also our terminals are using Unix. Most desk computers have 
> Windows 98 installed, and use some terminal emulator to access the 
> databases.