Thursday, December 12, 2024

Could any of these still be in use?

 


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  1. Where do you put the bobbin?

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  2. Might be usable to play pacman or store photos but there isn't a website that will recognize its ancient operating system.

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  3. I could see a few DMVs out there still using them...

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    1. Ya beat me to it. I was gonna say there's got to be some government office, somewhere that still has one, or more, of those around.

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  4. Up until a few years ago PDP 11 were used as fuel rod controllers in CANDU reactors. One guy’s job was to search the internet and salvagers for parts

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  5. With DEC gone, I would imagine parts are rather rare. I used a PDP 11-70 back in the 70s. IIRC DEC had discontinued the PDP 11 series by the mid 80s.

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  6. I have visited a government contractor which still uses a commodore 64 to control one of its production machines.

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