Timeline for What is the oldest digital processor still performing non-educational duties in its original environment?
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| Mar 9, 2022 at 6:38 | comment | added | justhalf | @supercat I'd say that a record is only a record if it's recorded, so it held the record until 2023, and then taken over by the new discovery which admittedly came earlier, but not recorded earlier. | |
| Mar 8, 2022 at 16:48 | comment | added | supercat | @bland328: That would be my reading, though the construct is a bit semantically awkward. If something older were discovered in 2023, would that mean the record stood until 2023, or that the WITCH never held the record in the first place? | |
| Mar 8, 2022 at 15:00 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Mar 7, 2022 at 16:13 | comment | added | bland328 | @TobySpeight, perhaps the "likely" language is intended to leave wiggle room for discovery of an even-longer-running system. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 16:01 | comment | added | Toby Speight | That record is just "likely" to stand as long as it continues to function? I know it's not your words, but I think someone failed to think that through! | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 15:38 | comment | added | Jon Custer | @pipe - sure, but while perhaps one can eliminate museum machines, definitively saying that machine X is still doing its "original job" seems difficult at best. Even if still in a production environment, is it doing the "original job" that it was installed for? If your old trusty IBM 360, which used to be used as a timeshare system by all your engineers is now used on occasion to copy some old tapes to a new format - is it doing its "original job"? | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 15:31 | comment | added | pipe | @JonCuster That's the whole point of the question. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 14:49 | comment | added | Jon Custer | It isn't the computer's fault that nobody uses Enigma anymore... Seems the sticking point in the question is 'running original job' - who would still be using really old machines to do what they did back then? | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 12:35 | comment | added | Raffzahn | How does this qualify the 'still running original job, not re-purposed for educational' clause? It's no longer running it's original purpose and is nowadays an educational artefact in a museum, isn't it? | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 10:56 | vote | accept | malat | ||
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| S Mar 7, 2022 at 10:39 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Mar 7, 2022 at 10:39 | history | answered | Stephen Wassell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |