Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:03:52 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Old Tech
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
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"It=92s easy to wax nostalgic about old technology--to remember fondly
our first Apple IIe or marvel at the old mainframes that ran on
punched cards. But no one in their right mind would use those
outdated, underpowered dinosaurs to run a contemporary business, let
alone a modern weapons system, right?

Wrong!

While much of the tech world views a two-year-old smartphone as
hopelessly obsolete, large swaths of our transportation and military
infrastructure, some modern businesses, and even a few computer
programmers rely daily on technology that hasn=92t been updated for
decades."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_=
computers_in_use_today.html

mjw