I used to work at the back end of a Very Big Bank, taking credit card payments on debt.
A somewhat important thing, you'd think... but we used decades old machines running windows 95 [this was back when windows 7 just came out] Why? Because the terminal emulator software we used to talk to the 30 year old mainframe that ran accounts, would only run on Win95. at one point, I'm told, the i.T dept went skip diving behind the back of a place that was upgrading their machines, just so they could get enough usable parts to keep our machines going, as no-one was making them any more.
Yeah...
Flash probably died on your machines when they pulled support because a lot of back end stuff in Flash used to talk to their servers, which aren't there any more.
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I used to work at the back end of a Very Big Bank, taking credit card payments on debt.
A somewhat important thing, you'd think... but we used decades old machines running windows 95 [this was back when windows 7 just came out] Why? Because the terminal emulator software we used to talk to the 30 year old mainframe that ran accounts, would only run on Win95. at one point, I'm told, the i.T dept went skip diving behind the back of a place that was upgrading their machines, just so they could get enough usable parts to keep our machines going, as no-one was making them any more.
Yeah...
Flash probably died on your machines when they pulled support because a lot of back end stuff in Flash used to talk to their servers, which aren't there any more.