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From: mal@hjuxa.UUCP (LEACH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: (Yes my) SW Make it to the year 2000?
Message-ID: <1545@hjuxa.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 89 13:13:19 GMT
References: <754@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp, Manalapan NJ
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From article <754@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, by dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold):
> 
> I think some software will easily survive another 10 years.
> Ha! You say.  Where is CP/M now?
> I only know that I was rather surprised to find a former customer of mine
> calling for conversion assistance on a program that he has been using,
> unmodified, since 1979.  That is ten years ago now.  It has survived through
> several OS upgrades, and even moving to a network, without so much as a
> recompilation.

I receintly sold a TRS-80 computer to someone that had an application
written in 1979 for that machine.  He had begun to hord the things because
his application was written in assembly and he didn't want to convert it.
He was afraid that if he waited until he needed a new TRS-80, he might not
be able to find one.  I know his application printed sales orders/recipts,
I wonder how many characters it used for the year :-)

BTW: for any other antique owners out there, I think he has as many as he 
needs.

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