On: Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

[Froedlich]

I still have a circa-1996 486 running Windows 95. It has an EPROM burner card and software that I use to reprogram the ECM in my car.

The cost of upgrading to modern software and hardware is substantial, plus the learning curve for something I only do rarely nowadays.

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Now that I think of it, some of the software was for Motorola radios. He was not a licensed Motorola shop (Kenwood), so I believe getting more modern software would have been difficult or very expensive, if even possible.