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posted by on Monday February 15 2016, @04:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the exemplary-mtbf dept.

The can of worms we opened when we learned of the server switched off after eighteen years and ten months' service is still wriggling, as a reader has contacted us to tell of nearly 30-year-old laptops still in service.

Reader "Holrum" says he has "a couple dozen Toshiba T1000 laptops from the mid [1980s] still fully functional (including floppy drives)".

The T1000 was introduced in 1987. [...] The machine was one of the very first computers to use a clamshell form factor. [...] It also offered a rather archaic LCD display, as illustrated.

[...]The machine ran MS-DOS 2.11 on a ROM [and] came with a colossal 512kB of RAM [...] and a single 3.5-inch floppy drive.

Holrum says the T1000s are taken offline every few years for just the few minutes required to replace the NiCad batteries and give them a clean before they are returned to duty as process monitoring terminals.

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  • (Score: 1) by turgid on Monday February 15 2016, @08:19PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 15 2016, @08:19PM (#304846) Journal

    I liked to think I could tell the difference between the real and fake posts quite easily. Maybe I was over confident? The troll ones always looked conspicuously immature.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @09:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @09:38PM (#304881)

    Yeah, usually the troll posts amount to nothing more than 'cocks' (which is apparently a reference to this irc post? [bash.org]) and for a while it was just random words.

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