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Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die

Posted by samzenpus on from the old-school-and-oldest-school dept.

jfruh writes "You might think that flat files, VAXen, and punch card readers are things of the past — and you're right, for the most part. But here and there, these fossilized technologies have found places where they can survive in production use."

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  1. IE6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought this was going to be about IE6

  2. Re:Technology by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Funny

    EDI can be embedded in XML before storing it in your SQL database. I'm sure there's a Java library for doing this.

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  3. Re:Technology by HeckRuler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, he's a lumberjack. And he's ok.