Autopilot and mission-critical legacy don’t mix
Some legacy system pros manage at companies that have set IT shops on autopilot. Legacy is devoted to the success […]
Legacy computing can weather recession
Gartner Worldwide predicts a stop in IT spending of 8 percent this year to $3.4 trillion. This year’s trigger, of […]
HP moves enterprise support, seeks buyouts
Bob Chase, a former engineer for HP’s enterprise support team, reports that the entire HP Enterprise Server Support Team “working […]
This just in: COBOL is not dead
On the most antique Saturday Night Live shows, Chevy Chase reads fake news. With each broadcast he’d repeat this joke: […]
Open source, private tools move 3000 text to PDF
HP 3000s still contribute data in corporate environments. A Sanface Software solution, text2pdf, creates PDF files out of HP 3000 […]
Legacy platform flies beyond its expert’s career
Out in the Pacific Northwest, the aircraft giant Boeing continues to build products. One part of the operation in the […]
3000s get replacement processors to stay online
There’s still a legacy community for production-grade HP 3000s. Some owners are working to keep their systems online and using […]
MANMAN bears down on the end of its Infor life
MANMAN, the ERP and manufacturing software first run in the 1970s, celebrates a milestone next month. On June 30, 2020, […]
Collaborating on tinkering connects SSD to legacy
Things didn’t go well when first trying to connect SSD storage with an HP 3000. By today, the solid state […]
HPE sends Discover into a virtual edition
HP Discover, the annual conference organized by HP and supported by the user group Connect, is going virtual on June […]