The BBC micro makes a nice machine controller having the digital I/O ports. We replaced a PDP-11 with one once (many years ago).
I still use old kit for tasks like printing shipping labels. I just installed a 286 to replace an 8088 which died, driving a salvaged tractor-feed dotmatrix printer. A 10k program in Modula-2 does the work of a 200k program in Delphi with 10x faster development time.
Is there anyone who recycles old software?
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The BBC micro makes a nice machine controller having the digital I/O ports. We replaced a PDP-11 with one once (many years ago). I still use old kit for tasks like printing shipping labels. I just installed a 286 to replace an 8088 which died, driving a salvaged tractor-feed dotmatrix printer. A 10k program in Modula-2 does the work of a 200k program in Delphi with 10x faster development time. Is there anyone who recycles old software?
no problem there, PAL quality is much better than NTSC
Don't let white wine stay in here - it dissolves the tracks off the board. But you can paint them back with silver loaded paint.