A German railway is seeking an IT administrator to supervise critical railway infrastructure but who understands MS-DOS and Windows 3.11. It’s not just German railways that run on ancient tech: Some aircraft still use software that must be updated using 5.25” floppy disks, and the U.S. military used 1970s-era IBM computers in its nuclear program until 2019.
All things must end sometime, though: Microsoft is finally removing its basic text editor WordPad from Office, after 28 years, and Japan will soon end its requirement that businesses file many documents via floppy disks and CD-ROMs.
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