Re: What companies are still using old technology

["Bible John" <john.doggett@x-files.gov>]

Perhaps you could buy the parts on ebay and save money. A couple $100 for a 
386 sounds like allot to me.


john


"Wolfgang" <w@work.com> wrote in message 
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> 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. 



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