TimothyMoulder
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Looking at what our UK friend is dealing with regarding his Taylor software got me to thinking about an old news story I heard - a professor at a major university had been working for many, many years on a particular piece of fortran code when his computer crashed, dead, kaput. He then went to request a new computer with one specfication - a 10" floppy drive.
Of course, he learned there is no longer any such animal, they are extinct, essentially and practically. The lady being interviewed related that the man actually cried. His life's work might have been reassembled with a fortran program on a newer computer, but since he never upgraded the media, it was impossible to get it off his disks! He was left with nothing but notes, a new computer, and starting over from zero.
Anyone else know any stories of painful forced obselesence and it's grievous consequences?
TM
Of course, he learned there is no longer any such animal, they are extinct, essentially and practically. The lady being interviewed related that the man actually cried. His life's work might have been reassembled with a fortran program on a newer computer, but since he never upgraded the media, it was impossible to get it off his disks! He was left with nothing but notes, a new computer, and starting over from zero.
Anyone else know any stories of painful forced obselesence and it's grievous consequences?
TM