There's a school district in or near Grand Rapids Mich. that is using an old Atari if I remember correct. They had to buy a new (used) one off Ebay or something cause the old one crashed and it was going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to retro fit all the school buildings with new interfaces. They use it to control the HVAC in several buildings.
As for myself the first personal computer I ever used was back around 1980-81 it was an IBM-286 4Mhz w/256kb ram and 256kb ext. ram. It was in the computer room at a large company where they had an enormous main frame that used those giant reel to reel magnetic tapes. The room had positive pressure ventilation and I don't know what else but when ever I had to work in there I always got a sore itchyness in my throat. I remember there was this one computer technician that all the other techs thought was daft because he would go around telling people that some day those little computers were going to replace those main frames. Boy he couldn't have been more right.
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