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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I've seen POS systems in local burrito shops still running Windows 7... native, not a VM...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I saw a bottle return machine running Windows 98.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I worked in a company which ran everything down to MS-DOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yup. Currently working at a company that has machines still running ms-dos due to them being critical and still working fine.

Well they're fine until you can't find replacement parts on Ebay anymore.

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