company still uses 1940s computer tech, probably most secure system :)

[feralkid]

Much more, employees don't sit around wasting time on Facebook,Twitter or anandtech forums.

I laughed so hard, because that is so true.

 

[tesher]

They don't make them like they used to. That's for a number of reasons of course.

 

[andylawcc]

AS400 was/is rock solid

am using it now. Had my facepalm moments coming from SAP, but it does work and surprisingly highly customize-able.

 

[Cerb]

Bet LibreOffice is looking pretty good now, eh? :^D

Only if it supports integers. That Excel is used for financial data is scary, IMV, being all float-happy. I would expect anything like pictured to use some form of BCD.

 

[CPA]

Thought this was gonna be a thread about as400 systems. Worked on that shit in the 90s and it was old shit then. Companies like Quaker oats and firestone still use that cr

My company still uses an AS400 system for receivables. We're a Fortune 250 company.

 

[CPA]

Hey, a regular PC of 20 years ago would be just as safe from hacking if it was never connected to the internet or used any data exchange device other than the printer. Best I suppose if you chose a PC before USB to rule out thumb drives. Just connect an old Epson dot matrix printer over the parallel port and disable/remove the RS-232 ports and your golden.


Brian

Uh no, we were using lightning fast 2400 baud modems 20 years ago.

 

[PliotronX]

Uh no, we were using lightning fast 2400 baud modems 20 years ago.

We were sitting pretty at 28.8k in 1994 which was broadband compared to 2400 :sneaky:

 

[GoPackGo]

My company still uses an AS400 system for receivables. We're a Fortune 250 company.

The security on them is pretty rock solid as well.

 

[CPA]

We were sitting pretty at 28.8k in 1994 which was broadband compared to 2400 :sneaky:

I was poor