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For some reason, I'm doubtful. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I had almost this exact scenario happen with a CNC machine for a very old but profitable niche company. Pain in my ass.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I don't know if it's still there but I once did some work getting a plasma cutter back to operational. OS/2. Not even warp!

    Oh it's a pretty solid OS but i mean, damn.

    Parallel port hardware key and everything. I do believe in keeping what works working but at some point you gotta let go because you run out of people that can solve problems with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Seems like this issue is across a few different industries. I had two CnC machine running software on old PC's with special cards to interface with the drives. One was running in a Dos box while the other was running windows XP. We could never afford any down time so it was fine some old PC's that can still run this stuff.

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