19yr old DOGEbag, 1978 VISTA programming@ VA

[jmowreader]

10. I've been there myself

I have MANY stories, some of which can't be told in polite company and others that aren't legal to tell, about us using ancient computers to do modern work. When you kids were ditching your IBM PC-ATs for 386s, 486s and Pentiums, I was still doing real work on IBM PC-XTs.

The government only replaces computers when they have to. Some private industry replaces computers on a regular basis to get the Newest and Fastest Thing so their PowerPoint slides pop up on screen a quarter-second quicker, but if you send a government agency a new computer they're more likely to create a new function for it to do.