Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)(computerworld.com)
171 points by doener | 92 comments
Computerworld news article from 2017 about a server that has run continuously since 1993 and is about to be retired.
#legacy-systems on Hacker News
5 stories tagged legacy-systems, newest first.
Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
233 points by mlaux | 240 comments
Ask HN post asking who still runs DOS machines, ISA-card instruments, or dongle-protected software for business, for research on keeping them running on modern hardware.
COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it(wumpus-cave.net)
402 points by hardburn | 388 comments
A Wumpus Cave blog post by Timm Murray about how COBOL has long been declared dead, citing an old article his grandfather wrote on the topic.
Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)(ezali.substack.com)
402 points by MoBarouma | 120 comments
A Substack post interviewing the author's mother about her career as a mainframe COBOL programmer.
Accidentally Load Bearing(jefftk.com)
386 points by jamessun | 165 comments
Jeff Kaufman blog post arguing that besides a thing's original purpose, you must check whether it has become accidentally load bearing, using a bathroom stud example.