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Richard Plume Page Icon Posted 2015-06-14 10:06 PM
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Sometimes, old tech is the best tech...

http://www.geek.com/news/commodore-amiga-computer-has-been-running-the-acheat-in-19-schools-for-30-years-1625147/

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CE Geek Page Icon Posted 2015-06-15 1:39 AM
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Ironically, now a lot of those systems are run by Windows CE-based controls.
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Jake Page Icon Posted 2015-06-15 3:56 AM
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Great article. What happens when that one programmer says I've had enough

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Yoldering Page Icon Posted 2015-06-15 5:03 AM
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1-2 million to replace??? No freaking way. I would go and buy up every thing related to that system I could, and pay that one programmer to train a backup...
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2015-06-15 6:40 AM
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It's quite cool that (once) high school student programmed it. And it's working for 30years!
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2015-06-16 10:27 PM
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Actually I owned several Amiga 2000s...and I live only 40 minutes from the school district building where it is housed....and I know for a fact that the computer software mentioned is simple ABasic which was compiled as a stand alone app. The source is actually still stored on the 10mb RLL drive....waiting for new updates...
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Jake Page Icon Posted 2015-06-16 11:34 PM
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Hah! So that old "programmer" probably has a Star Trek shower curtain as he dwells in his parents' basement and is making a tidy sum as one-of-a-kind guru. Good for him, many fortunes have been built on less.

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