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Oldest Supported Software?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the had-to-walk-uphill-to-school-both-ways-in-the-snow dept.

Dave Santek writes "In development since the early 1970s, the McIDAS [Man computer Interactive Data Access System] software celebrated its 30th anniversary in October 2003. McIDAS is used to integrate and visualize weather information. The software was originally run on a Datacraft /5 and has gone through 4 major hardware configuration changes over the last 30 years. It is a supported software package that remains in use at more than 100 locations worldwide. A history of the first 25 years (pdf) is available. A freeware version of the software is also available."

4 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. The Microsoft line of products is still supported. by morelife · · Score: 5, Funny

    Strictly speaking, it qualifies as "old" since let's be real - Micosoft software hasn't changed much since the late Eighties.

  2. Oldest Software by f1ipf10p · · Score: 5, Funny

    I still sometimes enter in the code for lunar lander on my 1975 HP-25 RPN calculator...

    That is the oldest software I support ;)

    --
    ~8^]
  3. Open Source (or possibly stolen from SCO) by glomph · · Score: 5, Funny

    void main(){printf("Hello World!\n");}

  4. Re:Here's another ancient one that DOES impact you by Haeleth · · Score: 5, Funny
    The 970s, of course. Here's a genuine snippet of tenth-century code:
    x. Lete S be "Haeleth roxoreth"
    xx. For T fram i. to m.
    xxx. Writ hwaet S byth
    xl. Nehst T
    l. Amen