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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My workplace was still using DOS machines (386s) in 2015 to format letters. It couldn't be emulated as the critical component was an ISA card

One of the pieces of work I worked on was diverting the data stream aimed at that letter system and translating it to go via our more modern correspondence system