Gregory's Server@John @nf3xn @blacklight @rrwo @szescstopni
In 1984 I was getting radiation for lymphoma and the machine that was delivering the dose, some sort of Roentgen device I think, was computer controlled. During one of the treatments (everybody left the room of course), I reached over and turned the screen toward me and as the commands scrolled by the hair on the nape of my neck stood up. It was a BASIC *interpreter* running off an 8" floppy! AIEEEE!! 8^)
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@Threadbane @nf3xn @blacklight @rrwo @szescstopni
Ouch, yeah.
I came in at the start of the floppy era. Before that we actually shipped clinical instruments with ROM boards only, and updates were shipping a new board. Part of our department was still doing that.
There was this big consciousness that, even with floppies, you never knew they would reach their destination, and out of date software might live for many many years.