6 Adventures in the dark ages of technology. (LONG)

[bean]

They had their moments, like a fiber link between the IT building and the courthouse, but they also had extremes in the other direction, like using Pentium 33MHz machines in the law library

*twitch*

The slowest Pentium chip ever released was 60 mhz. Those are either 386's or 486's.

Oh god... token ring... it's still alive?!

[Midorikawa]

*twitch*

The slowest Pentium chip ever released was 60 mhz. Those are either 386's or 486's.

Oh god... token ring... it's still alive?!

I stand corrected. So they were Pentium 60s. They had the Pentium sticker on front, so they weren't 486/386, but I also remember making note that they were the slowest Pentium made. I guess I brain farted and thought that was 33mhz, not 60mhz, like wiki has confirmed. That'll teach me to not fact check. :-P

[technical.angel]

We're still "tentatively" running AS/400. There's about 4 people who occasionally have to get in.

Due to certain factors of the box, our DB guys went in and exported all the information into a spreadsheet. They said it was scary big. But if the box crashes, we're good.

[SteeleDragon78]

while i feel your pain dealing with older networks, i had a devil of a time dealing with something slightly more evil. most of the major airlines still use a mainframe system built in the 60's for all of their weight and balance info, reservations, maint requests, etc. just before i left the "friendly skys" airline they had just killed the ancient email system within the mainframe. forcing all users to access the exchange system.