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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."

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  1. Youngest Unsupported Software? by mod_parent_down · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I know it's off-topic, but anyone have a vote for the youngest unsupported software?

    And to avoid MS-bashing, I mean officially unsupported... not just crappy support like you get with Office 2003

  2. Re:Here's another ancient one that DOES impact you by TheBeardIsRed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Plain View displays (by Raytheon) in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of 1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate.

    I believe he meant 10-15 years. In that case 10 years past that would be 25 and thus correct.

    I realize that most of you caught that, but i'm sure others didn't.