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I get that systems like this very often end up stuck far in the past, but surely there's a case to be made for modernising when you're reliant on a decades-old proprietary OS for public services? I mean, even if it's not connected to any networks (goodness I hope it's not!), there's going to be equivalents to the Millennium Bug coming up sooner or later, right?
And not only that, but most people who have Windows 3.11 administration experience will have retired already!
Last edited by Pengling on 23 February 2024 at 6:59 am UTC
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Being German I reckon they would have spent a lot of time looking at other such issues when working on the Y2K bug back in the day....... Such as the 01.01.2022 bug...... And I believe there are other dates that will still cause issues for these types of systems in the future......
But thats why we have admins and tech teams....... It keeps people in a job....... Yay economy!.....
While its true most would be retired by now...... Its still being used so there are probably more young-ish 3.11 Admins than you would think....... The German Rail Company would not be the ONLY ones using Windows 3.11..... A lot of closed ecosystems would be using very old hardware and software.......
And do we really want perfectly good working hardware thrown out and creating even more e-waste in this day and age???.......
I certainly hope so!
Very true.
Yeah, part of the downfall of an amusement centre I used to visit on vacations came down to this, and it ended up closing down after a lack of maintenance on the attractions drove people away. I saw some pictures of it in a news-article a while back, and it was downright sad to see!
Definitely not, but there's only so far that it can be fixed up and kept in line with current energy requirements - though admittedly it's the software side that concerns me more, especially if it actually is network-connected.
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Hell, the US government has only recently taken their bloated nuclear arsenal off of 8" floppies. So this Windows 3.1x thing isn't that shocking. Plus isn't the stereotype that Germans are cheap anyways? Why spend the money if it's still working? lol
If your co-workers are like these Germans, then it'd be worth it. (Also, the song in that scene is awesome.)
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Part the problem of replacing it is not just that it works, but after 30 years of tweaks and customizations, there's really no commercial drop in replacement. Every time they looked to replace it, the replacements ended up costing a ton of money and had a loss of features.
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It was funny, it had old UAW logos on it from a former Delphi facility, and I joked with people that I was really surprised that they didn't cover them up as to not give anyone any ideas. Since they loved making you slave away there as a contractor.
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All of either seven or eight, I could not for the life of me figure out why it booted in monochrome half the time, but otherwise perfectly fine. Of course, I know now that the NOT OK symbol means that something in memory was corrupted. Doesn't make it worth the mental gymnastics my mind went through trying to "fix" it as a kid.
Slightly off-topic ramblings, below.
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The first running some version of PC DOS (MS-DOS in all but name until 1993) that I can't remember. I remember it had a frontend with a graphical menu of five items, the ones I can remember being:
1. (that blasted game I can't remember --- see below)
2. WordPerfect 5.1 (1989, That gray on blue makes me nostalgic, sometimes.)
3. Card Sharks (CGA, 1988)
4. Classic Concentration 2 (CGA Warm/Cold hybrid palette, 1989)
5. Jeopardy (CGA Warm/Cold hybrid, 1987)
Whoever OEM was really loved game shows.
There was also this early platformer that I cannot, for the life of me, remember the name of. All I remember is it had a really simple 2-color palette, purple and green (and I mean green, not cyan). That and spike pits, lots of spike pits.
I was around four when we got that computer second-hand. I wish I could remember that one game. It's irked me for the last ~28 years (when I really got into computers) that I can't.
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If it comes up when dealing with older systems, I do mention I'm semi-fluent in SQL '92 along with modern variants (and pray these use something modern).
We used to have a Delphi plant in my town... It may have indeed given some ideas as the labourers and clerks in my current job just voted to unionize, lol.
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Praise be to the Lord, that's it! Perhaps our monitor replaced part of the CGA palette.
You've scratched the nostalgia itch enough that I can stop thinking about it, now. Bless your little bomb-plantin' .
If you want to play it again, go and grab DOSBox-Staging, because it was released as freeware in 2009.
D'aww, thankyou!