Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : All
From : Warpslide
Date : Wed Nov 02 2022 21:43:34

 *** Quoting Gamgee from a message to Atreyu ***

 Ga> Yeah that is cool.  There are actually quite a number of examples of
 Ga> DOS  still being used in business and science.  Many retail POS /
 Ga> "cash  register" systems use it, and I know that it runs on some very
 Ga> high tech  modern medical devices.  I think it may also be used in
 Ga> the financial  world some too.

Some of the PLC systems at a previous job were just industrial PCs that run 
Windows 98 embedded.  I was surprised when one of the systems that operated a 
large conveyor belt to a "cooling spiral" went offline and a maintenance 
technician brought it up to me asking if I "had one of these" and held up a 
2.5" IDE hard drive.

As it happened, I had a stack of old laptops and sure enough there was a 
laptop with one in there.  I helped him ghost the failing drive to this used 
one and they were back in business.

The Toshiba phone system there also had voicemail "card" in it with a spinning 
2.5" SATA that runs Windows XP embedded.  Lot of places run Windows where you 
may not expect it.

I'm also reminded of the time I went into a ScotiaBank one morning back in 
the late 90s or early 2000s and was amused to see the ATMs rebooting and that 
they ran OS/2.  I'm sure they've moved off of it by now, but it was still 
neat to see.


Jay

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