{"id":10107,"date":"2013-05-17T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2013-05-17T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:47:59","slug":"if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-ancient-computers-in-use-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10107","title":{"rendered":"If It Ain&#8217;t Broke, Don&#8217;t Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sparkler Filters of Conroe, Texas, prides itself on being a leader in the world of chemical process filtration. If you buy an automatic nutsche filter from them, though, they\u2019ll enter your transaction on a \u201ccomputer\u201d that dates from 1948.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/249951\/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html\">If It Ain&#8217;t Broke, Don&#8217;t Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span itemprop=\"articleBody description text\">The key punch isn&#8217;t the only massive accessory in Sparkler&#8217;s arsenal. The 402 also links to an IBM 514 Reproducing Punch, which has been broken for three years. When it works properly, the 514 spits out punched &#8220;summary cards,&#8221; which typically contain the output of the 402&#8217;s operation (such as sum totals) for later reuse. Sparkler stores all of its punched data cards&#8211;thousands and thousands of them&#8211;in stacks of boxes. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparkler Filters of Conroe, Texas, prides itself on being a leader in the world of chemical process filtration. If you buy an automatic nutsche filter from them, though, they\u2019ll enter your transaction on a \u201ccomputer\u201d that dates from 1948. via &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[645],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10217,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions\/10217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}