The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

[45Smashemflat]

And I have an Apple 2e with all the necessary peripherals on the shelf.
Crap...guess I am old!

The physics lab I used in college was considered “top tier” with Apple 2e’s available for some of us to work with. (Early versions of photoeyes could be connected to do timing experiments, early motor controllers for small DC motors, etc.). The “computer lab” was outfitted with Vic Commodore 64s. My first computer class in college was learning FORTRAN 77 and transitioning from cards to text code. All of it was done with dial up modems to the university system mainframe, dial the number, put the handset in the cups. I think it was a screaming 600 Baud connection!

 

[pasound]

My first "real" business computer was a Tandy laptop running DeskMate, a GUI shell running on DOS.

 

[retarmyaviator]

Think about some of the decades old computers NASA has to maintain to communicate with the older space probes still in operation.

Gave in this afternoon and ordered a replacement for my shop computer, it is 13 years old and not Windows 11 capable. Unfortunately I need the Windows security updates that will no longer be available for Windows 10. Still have a Dell laptop that runs perfectly using Windows XP.

 

[EugeneNine]

I got off of windows in 2002, been using Linux ever since