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Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

297 points · 304 comments · mlaux

  1. techteach00 · · focus · HN ↗
    It's not DOS but my private school still uses an IBM 5100 to do payroll and record attendance.
    1. roryirvine · · focus · HN ↗
      What's the reason for not using a more modern MIS?

      (I can certainly understand why organisations with niche requirements might hang on to old systems for as long as they continue to work, but I'd have thought that school payroll and attendance were much too commonplace to fall into that category)

      1. techteach00 · · focus · HN ↗
        I'm kidding. BRO, no school would be running the first (imo) commercial desktop still in the year 2026. The machine I cited was released in 1976!
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