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ortek_service · 2nd Oct 2021, 7:34 pm

I went to a talk about DEC PDP-8's and replicas a few years ago, where a retired support Engineer said he still kept some original ones going in industry (Think one was used in a mine!).

And heard that some places with v.large budgets, had to buy a used BBC computer as they still had processes that used these. Well the original Acorn system apparently evolved from a farm Milking machine project, and some factories had also used Electrons.
Although I doubt many relied on ZX81's & the wobbly RAM-pack...

2nd Oct 2021, 7:34 pm	#25
ortek_service Octode Join Date: May 2018 Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK. Posts: 1,444	Re: Government and Vintage computers I went to a talk about DEC PDP-8's and replicas a few years ago, where a retired support Engineer said he still kept some original ones going in industry (Think one was used in a mine!). And heard that some places with v.large budgets, had to buy a used BBC computer as they still had processes that used these. Well the original Acorn system apparently evolved from a farm Milking machine project, and some factories had also used Electrons. Although I doubt many relied on ZX81's & the wobbly RAM-pack...