• Zhao@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I had almost this exact scenario happen with a CNC machine for a very old but profitable niche company. Pain in my ass.

    • Cihta@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know if it’s still there but I once did some work getting a plasma cutter back to operational. OS/2. Not even warp!

      Oh it’s a pretty solid OS but i mean, damn.

      Parallel port hardware key and everything. I do believe in keeping what works working but at some point you gotta let go because you run out of people that can solve problems with it.

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      1 year ago

      Seems like this issue is across a few different industries. I had two CnC machine running software on old PC’s with special cards to interface with the drives. One was running in a Dos box while the other was running windows XP. We could never afford any down time so it was fine some old PC’s that can still run this stuff.