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[DISCUSSION] What was the oldest piece of tech actively used in an environment you supported? (lemmy.capebreton.social)
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I'll start ...

An AS400 back in the early 2000s , used as a legacy system for a leasing company. Some old dude used to come to support it for reporting and other functions. IIRC, there was a nice orange monochrome terminal that was connected to it.

I rarely had to touch it and I left the company before they migrated to a new platform.

I'm sure I've ran into more old tech, not sure why this stuck out in my memories.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've worked in an archive, which feels like cheating. I helped get a ca. 1920 glass slide projector up and running---main thing was replacing the light source with a projector bulb. Sadly, we only have one lens for it and that has a focus distance of "tennis court", which is inconvenient.

Link to the projector (technically an epidiascope): https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/items/show/7798

We also use the microfilm readers a ton. One's digital/connected to a modern computer. The other is analog--the sort you'd see in an early 1990s "child detective" type tv-show.