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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: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Monday February 15 2016, @09:42PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday February 15 2016, @09:42PM (#304883)

    I probably keep forgetting it because it's such a dumb reason it immediately escapes my memory after I read it.

    So you're one AC signing your posts claiming to be another AC. There's just too many layers of indirection for me to put any faith whatsoever that you're the same person. Sounds like this one "asshole" was just demonstrating the weakness of your posting system. But no, he's the asshole; we shouldn't reconsider. And I'm the asshole now for bringing it up again.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @09:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @09:46PM (#304886)

    You really think a person leaving comments like this [soylentnews.org] (under my nym, I might add) isn't an asshole?

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @12:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @12:42AM (#304980)

      There can be more than one asshole.

      -- SomeAsshole_

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @12:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @12:44AM (#304982)

        Uh, you don't get to bring friends.

        -- Willson_

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @07:21AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @07:21AM (#305084)

        There can be more than one asshole.

        -- SomeAsshole_

        We are legion! We poop, and we don't forget. Expect us.