The BBC Visit “the Strange and stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines”
Even if it is a staunch user of Apple, it is probably interacting with Windows systems on a regular basis. When it takes effective, for example, it is likely to be using a computer that is frankly geriatric according to technological standards. (Microsoft declined to comment for this article). “Many ATMs still operate in Windows inherited systems, including Windows XP and even Windows NT”, which was launched in 1993, says Elvis Montiero, a Newark automatic cashier -based field technician, New Jersey in the United States. “The challenge with the update of these machines lies in the high costs associated with hardware compatibility, regulatory compliance and the need to rewrite the patented automatic cashiers software,” he says. Microsoft finished the official support for Windows XP in 2014, but Montiero says that many ATMs still trust these primordial systems thanks to their reliability, stability and integration with bank infrastructure.
And it was expected that a work list for a IT Systems Administrator for the German rail service “had experience with Windows 3.11 and MS-two launched 32 and 44 years agorespectively. In certain parts of Germany, trips depend on the operating systems that are older than many passengers. ”
Nor is it only German traffic. The trains in San Francisco Muni Metro Light RailwayFor example, it won’t start in the morning until someone Paste a disk on the computer That loads the two software in the automatic train control system (ATC) of the railroad. Last year, the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority (SFMTA) announced its plans to withdraw This system during the next decade, but today the discs live.
Apple is “really aggressive to disapprove of old products,” says M. Scott Ford, a software developer who specializes in updating inherited systems, to the BBC. “But Microsoft adopted the approach of allowing organizations to take advantage of the hardware they already have and pursue them in their software place. They also tend to have a really long window to support that software.”
And then you get things like two huge Lightjet printers in San Diego driven by servers that run Windows 2000, says the photographic printer John Watts:
I carry out of production, the remaining few lights are based on the Windows operating systems that were close when these printers were sold. “A while ago, we wanted to update one of the computers to Windows Vista. By when we add the money that would be needed to buy new licenses for the entire software, it would cost $ 50,000 or $ 60,000 [£38,000 to £45,000]”Watts says.” I can’t stand Windows machines, “he says,” but I’m caught with them … “
In some cases, however, old computers are a love job. In the United States, Dene Grigar, director of the Electronic Literature Laboratory At the Washington State University, Vancouver, spends its days in a room full of vintage (and completely functional) computers that date from 1977 … not only is interested in early, Experimental electronic books. Your laboratory collects everything from video games to Instagram Zines…. The Grigar Electronic Literature Laboratory maintains 61 computers to show the hundreds of electronic works and thousands of files in the collection, which it keeps in virgin conditions.
Grigar says they are still looking for a PC that reads the disks and five -inch and inch rooms.
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