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Oldest Software Seen in Production?

Posted by Cliff on from the legacy-just-ain't-the-word-for-it dept.

Ian Bevan asks: "In my last job we were replacing a legacy system, written in COBOL and running on a Fujitsu mainframe since 1985 (it was a payroll application). A bespoke database application I wrote in 1989 was still being used, unmodified, last year. What's the oldest software you know of still in production? Anybody know of anything from the 70s, or even 60s ? What's it used for?" Has anyone seen software in production that is older than they are?

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  1. NASA by Nater · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't hold me to this, but I think some of the software on the Pioneer probes was written in the 1970's.

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