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And by "working" I do not mean "functioning"! That is, I don't mean that it will turn on and run properly. I mean, doing an actual job for an organization, still "in service" as it were.
I wonder if our labs' Macintosh IIcx isn't the oldest Mac still in service!
Here is our control room--not all of it--but a good portion of it--enough to see the Mac IIcx, up high, just to the right of the clock:
And zooming in:
According to EveryMac.com this computer has to be at least 23 and 1/2 years old at this point! We got it from CERN to run our text to voice software (which we also got from CERN, I believe). So, anytime a program on the control system wants to audibly output some text, it is sent to this computer.
Apparently, there were two voices to chose from: a male voice--don't know the name--and a female voice--named "Victoria". The previous director of operations used to talk back to her, saying stuff like "Yes, Dear. I know." when she said things like "Warning, 30 seconds left before ramping magnets" or "TC MON four-hundred-thirty-one hot: fifty-one-point-seven degrees C. Take action." or "gate valve closed--you will not inject this way."
Some of the text to voice stuff is really funny. Like "diodes" gets turned into "Dee Ohh Dez".
The monitor has been repaired a number of times, but the computer itself was repaired only once--not sure what was done--probably a new hard drive. Hard to believe that we had a spare hard-drive of this type, but if any organization would had such a thing we would. We're big on spares!
We keep expecting this machine to die, and we have a replacement solution ready and waiting. But the director of operations wants to see how long it will take before it does fail. It's kind of amazing that it's still running. It has been in almost continuous service over the past 23+ years. Maybe two or three days of downtime at most, that I know of.
Anyway, if you think have an example of an older Mac still in service, please let us all know! But I wouldn't be surprised if this is it! LOL!
And also please feel free to chime in with any examples of old Macs or with anything related!
I wonder if our labs' Macintosh IIcx isn't the oldest Mac still in service!
Here is our control room--not all of it--but a good portion of it--enough to see the Mac IIcx, up high, just to the right of the clock:
And zooming in:
According to EveryMac.com this computer has to be at least 23 and 1/2 years old at this point! We got it from CERN to run our text to voice software (which we also got from CERN, I believe). So, anytime a program on the control system wants to audibly output some text, it is sent to this computer.
Apparently, there were two voices to chose from: a male voice--don't know the name--and a female voice--named "Victoria". The previous director of operations used to talk back to her, saying stuff like "Yes, Dear. I know." when she said things like "Warning, 30 seconds left before ramping magnets" or "TC MON four-hundred-thirty-one hot: fifty-one-point-seven degrees C. Take action." or "gate valve closed--you will not inject this way."
Some of the text to voice stuff is really funny. Like "diodes" gets turned into "Dee Ohh Dez".
The monitor has been repaired a number of times, but the computer itself was repaired only once--not sure what was done--probably a new hard drive. Hard to believe that we had a spare hard-drive of this type, but if any organization would had such a thing we would. We're big on spares!
We keep expecting this machine to die, and we have a replacement solution ready and waiting. But the director of operations wants to see how long it will take before it does fail. It's kind of amazing that it's still running. It has been in almost continuous service over the past 23+ years. Maybe two or three days of downtime at most, that I know of.
Anyway, if you think have an example of an older Mac still in service, please let us all know! But I wouldn't be surprised if this is it! LOL!
And also please feel free to chime in with any examples of old Macs or with anything related!
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