On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:36 PM, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> > wrote: > >> >> > On Mar 9, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: >> > ... >> > I suspect that the nuclear power industry is one place that you'll find >> the oldest stuff, however, given the long regulatory approval process for >> change. >> >> I remember a nuclear reactor (research, not power generation) controlled >> by a PDP-9. >> >> paul >> >> >> > Obviously different than the first microcomputers designed for smaller > tasks in an industrial setting, but I agree that certainly the last of the > Win 2000 systems are still churning away customize applications for > business purposes in the backrooms of shops, plants, etc.. > > > > ... and to that end some of the first micros made for business probably survived for a long time after similar CPUs were long gone form the home. -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
