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Felger • yesterday at 11:01 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Not DOS, but I sold a '99 HP computer running win98 last month, to replace an identical failed system. It was used to control a 50 meters long custom industrial paint booth line for special equipments (like 57" rims). Luckily, their HDD was OK. Urged them to make a few sector-to-sector copies of it on a few spare HDD. This $100 sell surely has prevented this business from massive bills or even going bankrupt in the meantime from production loss.


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fluorinerocket • today at 7:21 PM

Insane to me that someone would use a windows machine to run a piece of equipment when PLCs exist and are supported for decades by companies like Rockwell, Siemens, Allen Bradley

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adithyassekhar • today at 10:28 AM

Think that’d be worth more than 100 :)

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