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Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools
jmulvey writes: Think your SCADA systems are outdated? Environmental monitoring at 19 Grand Rapids Public Schools are still controlled by a Commodore Amiga. Programmed by a High School student in the 1980s, the system has been running 24/7 for decades. A replacement has been budgeted by the school system, estimated cost: Between $1.5 and 2 million. How much is your old Commodore Amiga worth?
without systemd.
You're also going to need some way to keep the kids from screwing with them.
When I was in school the sure fire way to get us to mess with something like a thermostat was to put a lock of some kind on it. It was usually the threat of meeting with the "The Board of Education" that kept us in line. "The Board of Education" was very similar to a cricket bat with holes drilled in it that our principal kept on the wall behind his desk, which was labeled, "The Board of Education" in bright red outlined in black.
I'm guessing that between Ritalin and the constant distraction of cell phones, things like thermostats really wouldn't be noticed by students today.
I think it is PC to call all PC's PC
I still have two Amigas (500 and 1200). IM me and you can have both of them for just $500K - that's a savings of $1M over your upgrade costs! /snark>
You could murder someone with a Commodore 64 after fishing it out of a swimming pool filled with beer and it would still run fine.
Yes, after you replaced the power supply.
"Yeah, you're just going to have to sit in the sweltering heat during summer school until ThunderfuckThor69 sends us the PSU we need for a 30 year old computer made by a company very few of you have ever heard of."
Yeah, that'd go over well with me as a kid. Or my parents.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Did the sprites render faster after that?
emt 377 emt 4
When I was in school, our A/C was regulated by an electric tea kettle, that we placed underneath the thermostat in order to trick it into keeping the room at a temperature below "Shake 'n Bake"