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Computer Related => PC Hardware => Topic started by: Freddy on October 09, 2021, 20:09:19 PM
Found this interesting as I had an Atari ST. A lot of musicians used them too as it had a MIDI port and I think it was Cubase that led the field in music software if I recall correctly.
Mostly I played games on mine, but I did a fair bit of programming on it too, some ideas from then would be recreated many years later in various projects. I also designed some software for my Dad's business on it.
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/06/atari-st-still-manages-campground-reservations-after-36-years/
(https://www.datahopa.co.uk/forum/pc-hardware/atari-st-still-manages-campground-reservations-after-36-years/?action=dlattach;attach=2750;image)
Quote"Don't fix it if it ain't broke". That's what we guess [Frans Bos] has been thinking for the past few decades, as he kept using his Atari ST to run a booking system for the family campground. (Video, embedded below.)
Although its case has yellowed a bit, the trusty old machine is still running 24/7 from April to October, as it has done every year since 1985. In the video [Frans] demonstrates the computer and its custom campground booking system to [Victor Bart].
It's still working, amazing.
They don't make them like that anymore - I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not ;D
Interesting find.
Just goes to show that a computer only needs to be capable of the task in hand.
They were very reliable, no crashes that I recall.
Also surprising is that he has one of Atari's monitors there too - still working. I used an old telly with mine.