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C64, Where Are You

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jackschmittusa

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For the past 20 years a Commodore 64 was instrumental in displaying the departures and arrivals at the Dortmund train station. Now the C64 has died, the display has gone black, and the station has a big problem: a new display system would cost over 3 million Euros.
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Anybody with a C-64 in working condition who might part with it for less than 3mil euros? I may know a buyer.
 
Bureaucracy run amock. I wonder if any of the wizards running the train station will realize they can just buy a $399 dell and hire some college kid to re-write the scheduling software.
 
If you read the follow-up, it's actually not a C=64.

"Update: Welcome visitors from fark.com. Alas, it wasn't a C64 after all, as one of you points out in my comments (see also heise.de), but an Intel 310 system with a 80286 processor. WDR has now corrected their story. ITW also published the correction, and also links to video news clips from WDR (in German, of course)."

nothing to see here, move along
 
THey could just run it on a new machine in dosbox. hehe. And if dosbox can't run it they can pay the devs so they have more time to work on it. 😀
 
At least they didn't spend $170 on an information management system that doesn't even work and may have to be totally scrapped and replaced with something even more expensive.

*cough* FBI *cough*
 
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