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Atari ST in daily use since 1985
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This Atari 1040ST is still in use after 36 years! Frans Bos bought this Atari in 1985 to run his camping (camping bohmerwald). He wrote his own software over the years to manage his camping and the registration of the guests. He really likes the speed of the machine over new computers. And 6 months a year the machine is on day and night!
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@Winter_337 2 года назад

He's so excited to be showing off his setup. That's his machine, his code, his hard work that's been driving this operation for 30+ years. Hell yeah, that's what it's all about. What a hero

@freibier 2 года назад

Exactly, that is what this hobby is about. Take a home computer, learn how it works, make it your own with your own software, be proud of the results :-)

@Ozhull 2 года назад

Hero for sure. Reduce, REUSE, Recycle :)

@JohnSmith-iu8cj 2 года назад

Amazing!

@Psythik 2 года назад

@@Ozhull I'm pretty sure the energy savings you get from a newer PC *far* outweigh the benefits of hanging on to such an ancient system. Keeping this thing alive is doing more damage to the environment than simply replacing it.

@wilkoazkijaromir9749 2 года назад

@@Psythik How can you know it's taking lot of power (yeah I should say kWh)?

@Republic3D 2 года назад

I'm working for the family business with an Access program written by my own mother in 1998. Still going strong, both the program and my mother.

@BalvinderSingh-uh3my 2 года назад

You want to migrate that to SQL Server express you business will be better for it.

@adamkowalczyk3070 2 года назад

This is a perfect example of why all technology needs to be designed to be repairable and made to last.

@zafer4063 2 года назад

everything is repairable if you get spare parts. whenever i ask for spare parts in China they tell me: "oh solly, this is vely old model, 3 yeals, we don't have any palts, alleady out of wallanty"

@chrismofer 2 года назад

@@zafer4063 some devices and aspects of devices are designed to be difficult to repair, namely by soft lockouts like how apple won't let you use a replacement fingerprint sensor.

@Ebsy1 2 года назад

@@zafer4063 Wow.

@Icecube095 2 года назад

@@chrismofer Nowadays it is not only Apple doing this. Samsung is slowly doing this also. VW has put a protection in their manufactured cars, that when you try to exchange your analogue guages to digital ones (e.g. Golf 7) the car will simply lock you out and you can not even drive your car unless you have VW's software to reconfigure the car, which will cost you quite a lot... Tesla is doing similar practises and Mercedes is already implementing service subscription for rear axle steering - so if you don't pay the yearly subscription for your already 4000€ rear axle steering they will simply disable it over the air! To be honest todays practises towards repairing and owning things is really a pain :(

@chrismofer 2 года назад

@@Icecube095 yup planned and forced obsolescence are very profitable for manufacturers, enforcing a right to repairable products is one of the few ways we can fight it.

@stefang5639 2 года назад

I also love the fact that his man was able to program such a software, but still decided to keep running his camping site instead of becoming a programmer.

@horrido666 2 года назад

Tough choice. Cube farm vs. business owner with outdoor job.

@itsthem5699 2 года назад

In the 80's, if you couldn't program at all, you couldn't use a computer particularly well.

@Yogarine 2 года назад

@@horrido666 I’ve worked professionally as a programmer for over 15 years, never worked in a cubicle. My offices have ranged from a 5th floor corner office with terrace on top of a hill overseeing a lake in northeastern Brazil to historical houses at the canals in the heart of Amsterdam. Programmers are in high demand. If you don’t want to work in a cubicle, you don’t have to. I think this goes to show he really loves his business, which is awesome.

@Yogarine 2 года назад

@@itsthem5699 Not really. I used a 1040ST a bunch when I was ~12 years old and didn’t know how to program back then. It was actually quite user-friendly with a graphical OS and everything. My stepfather used to produce music on the 1040ST using QBASE and my mum could operate the word processor just fine. This isn’t like the C64 where you had to learn how to use a BASIC shell. The Atari ST (along with the Amiga and Macintosh, of course) were way ahead of its time.

@mkyprm 2 года назад

Be a programmer is way less fun and satisfying than you think. Entrepreneurship has lots of disadvantages but freedom is not one of them :) Today being a programmer means you work for someone and you always and only do what he says and that's why I'm looking forward to exit this shitty field. You would never be able to say "this... this is mine! I made it!" with pride. He does.

@rokker333 2 года назад

The 1980s was the golden age of "personal" computing. All the home computers back then were great individual machines. Compared to today, pretty simple, great playground and it was possible to comprehend them down to the motherboard. All I learned back then as a teenie was the foundation of my professional live as a SW developer.

@DigitalFacts 2 года назад

There were all the musicians using the Atari ST in the 80s and 90s and some still using it today but this guy just running his camping business nonstop till this very day. Awesomeness guaranteed.

@alb12345672 2 года назад

I got one in HS and I remember it had a midi port. I also played synth, had a blast with it.

@MrSmithUK 2 года назад

I had a 1040st, running cubase - happy days :-)

@ChrisGoosman 2 года назад

The studio I worked for in the 1990's had a large console (mixer) and the automation was run by a 520ST. It was super stable and ahead of many other automation programs available for other consoles. Later we upgraded the console to have compressors and gates on every channel and the ST also controlled them.

@LoftyVisions 2 года назад

@@MrSmithUK Same, wrote an album with that setup in 97 😄

@GregsGameRoom 2 года назад

Nice to see the ST still being used! I was impressed that he had a map with clickable details. Pretty cool!

@BurstupTV 2 года назад

A couple of years ago I met a guy who was running a night club in Vienna, with two Commodore 64 computers - one of them in the office, running a self-made accounting software (written in Assembler), the other C64 was at the dancefloor, controlling all the light effects of the club, also on self-made software. The Commodore Club Austria had their yearly meetups in that club, too. ^^

@AmigaLove 2 года назад

I love this SO much, it fills me with a weird mixture of sadness and utter joy. Thank you so much for finding this total gem of a story and sharing it. May it spread far and wide. (And talk about a SECURE system! No hacking that sucker! Amiright?) =)

@edstar83 2 года назад

@@gregferguson7737 I still have my Amiga 500.

@SeanHarlow 2 года назад

"(And talk about a SECURE system! No hacking that sucker! Amiright?)" Only because it's not online. not because it's an Atari. Anything from that era that did connect to public networks was almost certainly full of vulnerabilities because no one really cared about buffer overflows until the 2000s and protecting against them takes extra resources you might not have been able to spare in the past. Leave any modern PC offline (and don't insert any untrusted media like what happened with Stuxnet) and it's just as immune to attack.

@lkirillov 2 года назад

@@SeanHarlow not really. The exploits for the old 16-bit systems are nearly extinct now.

@SeanHarlow 2 года назад

@@lkirillov Security by obscurity is not security. That the exploits may be forgotten by most by now and some may have been lost doesn't mean they're not still possible. Obviously no one's deploying large scale exploits aimed at retrocomputer platforms, but that's a different matter from considering it more secure. It's less likely to be a random victim but I'd be willing to bet more vulnerable if you were being targeted specifically.

@Audispeedquattro 2 года назад

USA michigan has controlled the air conditioning of 19 schools with an Amiga for 30 years. Was then taken out of service due to a new acquisition, the amiga would still run out of business today greetings from Germany Köln

@thorsteinj 2 года назад

Well I guess Camping Böhmerwald will become a compulsory stop for any retro enthusiast on a road trip through Europe... I've actually been just "in der Nähe" several times visiting Köln/Leverkusen.

@Spelter 2 года назад

It's in the Netherlands, not Germany. You can hear that by his accent, and a special hint is the background poster. It's near Koningsbosch, so if you drive there, you can see that puppy in action :) And he is not the only one, I had a landlord that had a 486 with IBM DBase Databases for everything. He even imports his account balances on the machine via CSV export of his HBCI program, and it knows who paid and stuff. It was a different time back then, and many refuse to move on, because the system is specialized for their work.

@thorsteinj 2 года назад

@@Spelter If I remember correctly a video presenting Microsoft’s Windows NT Server (3.1 or 3.5.1) claimed something like supporting thousands of directory accounts on a 486 on 12 MB of RAM. Or something like that. Point is just like you said and this camp site has proven, you can do a lot of things with old things. And isn’t it more fun to manage to figure out something like that, I think so. Oh and regarding the location I guess I just assumed that everyone understood it was in the Netherlands but of course a good point.

@Spelter 2 года назад

@@thorsteinj Yes, I love to figure things like this out, my coworker is not understanding my meticulously on certain things. You have to know a lot of basics when you want to run it fast, but on the other hand, you have to watch out that your app is serviceable. I remember when I wrote software in basic on my Commodore and later PC to the 486 and it worked how great it felt for me, I was only 10 or 11 back then. So many memories of a simpler time

@Audispeedquattro 2 года назад

@XanderEwald 2 года назад

@@Spelter Koningsbosch is actually around the corner from Cologne, it’s one hour by car. Europe is tiny.

@iangodfrey4518 2 года назад

What an absolute Champion. I was an Amiga guy back in the day (late 80s's) .. but Go Atari ! No such thing as planned obsolescence here.

@russianvoodoo 2 года назад

This is some Japanese level of zen right there.

@robbaskerville253 2 года назад

This story made me way too happy, I don't know why.

@seanshea8596 2 года назад

This reminds me of my First job in a Drug Store. The owner was an engineer and his wife was the pharmacist. He wrote a program that did everything in the pharmacy for inventory and ordering that ran on a Commodore 64. This was also 1985 though Keith my old boss sold the shop in the 90's

@TattiePeeler 2 года назад

The programmer has a mighty moustache in his programm highlight picture. Fun. This clip is so enjoyable.

@odlotowy 2 года назад

Corporation - you must buy new model every year. This guy - i have Atari ST :)

@alessandropintucci7518 2 года назад

My Hero! I've been playing and working on a 1040 STF for 5 years (1988-1993), i'm missing that time!

@libertylion6088 2 года назад

I got an Atari ST when it first came out. I loved that computer. It and the Amiga were ahead of its time.

@NijiDash 2 года назад

Wow, that's so cool! I love seeing retro computers that are still being used to this day. It's pretty remarkable to see that he wrote his own software, too.

@GregMoress 2 года назад

Back then we all had to write our own software, and walk 5 miles through snow to get to school. And it was uphill both ways!!!

@timo1383 2 года назад

Then come to Germany - our whole government and administration runs on full paper ! I wish they had an Atari ST !

@lallepop2k 2 года назад

Wait, theres more being used? Link please

@MarkONEmcr 2 года назад

Das ist Super, amazing to see an Atari ST still in daily use! Thanks for sharing!

@flonflon62 2 года назад

IT at the service of the individual and not the opposite way... No cookies, no updates, no viruses, just a tool that works. But it takes a lot of intelligence to settle for little and to program your own software with the resources of the time was genius to me. Hat off! This makes me dream a lot !

@Pizzzamampf 2 года назад

wow that´s really amazing! Such a reliable, modest and brave piece of nostalgic hardware - that even warms my heart as ex-Amiga-dude! Top! 👍

@CFXThoomZ 2 года назад

This is great! What a find Victor Bart!

@Antonio_Gallego 2 года назад

You made my day, folks. This is really amazing, cheers!!!

@DavideNastri 2 года назад

Real hackers use their computers to solve their problems. Amazing, just love this.

@liukang3545 2 года назад

ok snowflake

@SMGJohn 2 года назад

*Hacker* _1. a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system_

@RichardThaddeus 2 года назад

@@SMGJohn it also has the definition of "an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer. "

@markusblake7936 2 года назад

@@liukang3545 ...tf

@TrenchcoatSteve 2 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing this video. You can tell this gentleman has kept up with Atari developments over the years and is a true enthusiast. So nice to see old systems still running like this. Apparently there are still mail sorters running in post offices in the USA that can only interface with an Atari ST.

@MyDailyUpload 2 года назад

That's interesting. I worked in the banking software business until 2000 and I was concerned that banks were running check sorters on IBM PS/2 Model 80 running OS/2 1.3 even then.

@RetroDawn 2 года назад

Really? The USPS is using Atari STs? I didn't know they ever did. I'd love to learn more about this.

@TrenchcoatSteve 2 года назад

@@RetroDawn I found a video showing an Atari STE controlling a Bell & Howell mail inserter... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HJL16tw5L6M.html

@PCFixer 2 года назад

Love love love the Atari ST! It was my computer when I was a kid, but I had the 520 STFM! R-Type, Shadow of the Beast, Gauntlet II, Xenon, Revenge of the Mutant Camels... YES!

@GregMoress 2 года назад

Oh look at Mr. Fancy Pants over here. I started with a TRS-80 Model I Level II, then a C-64.

@PCFixer 2 года назад

@@GregMoress Well... good for you, I guess.

@skylined5534 2 года назад

@@PCFixer Same here! Had my STFM 520 for Christmas 1990, it got used to death! Ish, it still works to this day! I remember having a 'Power Computing' 2.5mb memory upgrade, I thought I was the business with my fancy quick access ram drives back then! I remember my mum and my brother running it over to a guy in Hednesford (I'm in the UK) to solder the chip socket and jumper wires in, great times!

@davidhoitinga8467 2 года назад

R-type is a great Game.

@JonnyInfinite 2 года назад

Same here. A few years ago I actually bought one again

@PeterDoingStuff 2 года назад

Amazing, thats insane it's still working and that it has been running that many hours/days/month/years also the camping software looks well made

@MarkLiversedge 2 года назад

This is fantastic, I had an ST in my childhood and I have very vague recollections of it, it blows my mind that this one has been working away for 37 years and no hardware faults !!!

@goemboeck 2 года назад

Now that's a truly cool story. I hope he has a backup ST in case this one gives up sometime in 2040 :)

@PeterMaddison2483 Год назад

I made a comment (near the top) about his mouse, I'm shocked it still works, unless he bought ao bulk load many years ago... 🤣

@madigorfkgoogle9349 9 месяцев назад

@@PeterMaddison2483 mouse is easy to replace.

@ColorMeMozart 2 года назад

This made my day. Simply amazing that he programmed the software he needed himself. Awesome!

@miepmiepzoefzoef 2 года назад

That was pretty common in the days...

@madigorfkgoogle9349 9 месяцев назад

you had a pretty good tools back then, you could even do it in Basic, the GFA Basic or Omicron Basic was easy to learn and you could do everything. Even GUI use of windows and pop up boxes was easy, and you could either use the program with small runtime.prg or if you bought it, you could even compile the Basic program to machine code, exciting times.

2 года назад

This is so cool! 36 years and going strong!

@saiello2061 2 года назад

The Atari 520ST was what we computer science students bought in the late 80's primarily for wordprocessing in writing up coursework. It was a much cheaper alternative than an Apple Mac with comparable functionality and interface. I still have my Atari in the attic.

@RetroDawn 2 года назад

I used mine for C prg'ing in college, too. Why would any comp sci students only use it for WP?!

@saiello2061 2 года назад

@@RetroDawn Yes, primarily for word processing, because you could write up all of your coursework and print it off on A4 sheets all in the comfort of your own home. You couldn't really do that on the mainframe and mini computers at Uni. So this was the main reason for purchasing. Games was the second most important reason. The Atari was obviously used for some 'C' programming but this was a relatively small element of the degree and therefore a minor consideration.

@Corsa15DT 2 года назад

We've seen C64 running for 30 years, now we see Atari ST does the same.

@giuseppelavecchia775 2 года назад

E i C64 continuano ad andare,non li fanno piu computer cosi

@Spelter 2 года назад

The CNC Computer in a milling machine we have at work is a Commodore Vic20 with extra RAM. It's from the company Wiest, it's unbelievable, but this thing still runs while a 20 year younger machine from Italy died, and we don't get a computer for it because it needs special cards.

@Corsa15DT 2 года назад

@@Spelter haha, cool. I am in the cnc filament winding business. We use new I5 cpus with 8gb to run those machines, cause the controller is software based. I'd like to see this antic cnc machine, you can make a video of it.

@Spelter 2 года назад

@@Corsa15DT I'll ask for permission, not like I can walk into our production and make videos lol

@Corsa15DT 2 года назад

@@Spelter If you have to ask for it, then don't do it, they'll count it as a favor. BUt that's some back to the future stuff right there haha

@MrLeixe 2 года назад

Thank you mate for that awesome video. Also big fist bump to Frans for this great story...

@gu4xinim 2 года назад

That's some nice interface. My man here is awesome.

@dussie920 2 года назад

How many tank-mice has this guy worn to the bone in all those years!! I love the spirit of not changing things when still satisfying and useful. Great piece of home made software too. I would only visit this camping site for seeing the Atari at work in real life and to see this beautiful software. Thanks for this video!

@mattjmcguire00 2 года назад

that's so awesome. I do miss developing on the old machines. things were so much simpler back then

@ScobieLeprachaun 2 года назад

Great to see this Atari ST still in use, well done Sir

@activemotionpictures 2 года назад

thank you very much for sharing this video. I appreciate this living history. Useful and practical!

@aggibson74 2 года назад

2:53....That was my favourite camping game too! The BOSS camp ranger at the end of level 8 was difficult to beat. The trick was to throw 3 toasted marshmallows at the brim of his pith helmet and then jab at him with the hotdog skewer.

@gamingtonight1526 2 года назад

I love that he calls it a "PC" - Personal Computer. I think we forget how the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Amiga, Spectrum/Timex 48K, Atari 400 and 800, Atari ST and the Tandy were Personal Computers. Even if we only played games on them!

@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS 2 года назад

Don't forget TI99-4A!!

@Gambit771 2 года назад

I never considered them to be 'PCs', the Amstrads, Speccys and so on were alway 8-bit computers with the Amigas and Ataris were their own thing. The IBM compatible was a PC to me even though they are all 'Personal Computers'.

@PeterMaddison2483 Год назад

Don't forget the ZX-81, the grandad of home computers

@madigorfkgoogle9349 9 месяцев назад

@@PeterMaddison2483 grandad of home computers was Commodore PET hands down, it was probably even the first computer that was titled a "Personal Computer", I believe it was even Jack Tramiels idea, this name.

@christerry1156 2 года назад

This is amazing. No point replacing something that is not broken. Good video.

@RetroRespawn 2 года назад

This is great. Look how yellowed it is too. But if it ain't broke... Don't fix it! My favourite part was seeing the more modern computer switched off next to it.

@jasonking1284 2 года назад

"But if it ain't broke... Don't fix it!" 100% no 1000% true. Far too many tinkerers nowadays, mess things up whilst claiming superiority.....

@skylined5534 2 года назад

I'd say treat the old girl to a spot of retrobriting :)

@noop9k 2 года назад

@@jasonking1284 “I rewrote this in this new buggy framework while making it 5 times slower and losing half of the features”

@jasonking1284 2 года назад

@@noop9k These pencil necked geeks don't care. As long as that shiny new Framework gets used is all that matters to the fools.....

@chriswareham 2 года назад

I now want to go camping in the Netherlands just to be able to see this ST still being used to run a business. I learned to program in 68k assembly language and C on an ST, and I feel like I owe my subsequent career as a programmer to that machine!

@rolvs 2 года назад

You can do a lot of work on older computers! Some years ago i helped a man that had an wood milling machine and set up Windows 3.1 and installed the software. Works perfect! It was not posible to get it working on something modern, even tried in a virtual machine, but no. So he is happy with his old 486 with Windows 3.1!

@Rockband2991 2 года назад

Did you try dosbox?

@rolvs 2 года назад

@@Rockband2991 Yep, did not work. The program ran but could not access the paralellport to connect to the machine.

@tylisirn 2 года назад

DOS and early Windows (since the multitasking is cooperative) can work as a cheap "Real Time Operating System". Because of that they were often used to control industrial machinery, and it really means *control.* The computer is directly saying when the motors should start and stop running and how fast. Putting it through DOSbox wouldn't give same consistency of control, since there'd be a pre-emptive OS (modern Windows), plus emulation, messing up the timings. So it wouldn't work even if you could forward the parallel port.

@nicholas6900 2 года назад

It's nice to see a computer still in use from the 80's! I guess once a machine does a job well there's really no need to replace it. I worked in retail and they still run a lot of IBM machines with DOS simply because it gets the job done. Great video, just subbed!

@defaltdj1493 2 года назад

This is a true holy relic! I hope it gets preserved over the next years

@turrican05 2 года назад

Absolutely awesome! Crazy and super cool. I am totally excited. :D

@thelasthuman8474 2 года назад

This news came on headlines on Greek newspaper and when I saw you I was really excited

@falklumo 2 года назад

Beautiful, still running a TT in my basement. Wrote a graphical drawing management tool for an architecture team back at the days :)

@Tossphate 2 года назад

This put a smile on my face. What a beautiful machine for all the use its had.

@bankyWI 2 года назад

Very cool! Definitely go back to this computer in like 4 years for it's 40th birthday lol

@sypialnia_studio 2 года назад

Awesome idea!

@JanEspen 2 года назад

Thank you for making this video. Truly unique story.

@Brainary 2 года назад

Cool. As he made the software himself he can also update camp layout when needed, and "bought" solution would probably just be a Excel-clone. Btw; the "end cards" pops up right over your sponsored segment.

@blueskunk9163 2 года назад

Never let anyone shame you or your coding creation! The human mind, regardless of the chosen profession, is amazing at creating tools and solutions using whatever is available. It's very impressive he got so much utility from this early computer. He's a really impressive man!

@omoterengue 2 года назад

impressive , that is incredible , i love that old computer still running in 2021 .

@lukassiewert4851 2 года назад

Love this so much

@John_Smith__ 2 года назад

Absolute Hero there! Awsome to see this guy using his Own code and computer after all this time. I also think he can find Atari hardware for sale online ... it's more difficult to get but still can be found. Some maybe with very few use.

@MarcVFons 2 года назад

If something works doesn't need to be replaced, awesome video!

@ML_314 2 года назад

His Webpage looks exactly what you'd expect it to look like! :) Absolutely fabulous!

@s4ndwichMakeR 2 года назад

And the map of the camping site as shown on the website looks like a direct bitmap copy from his program. (Except for some conversion issues, looks like scaling with interpolation with intermediate values rendered in monochrome instead of greyscale)

@someguy872 2 года назад

This is incredible. To think a ST is still in active service over 35 years later, IN HOLLAND!

@GregMoress 2 года назад

Ishnt zhat veird???

@nolake 2 года назад

That's funny because I still have my working ST, Amiga and even C64, they're still part of my actual life and we use to play on those machines with friends and children because it's timeless and a lot of fun actually (far more than one could expect^^). That's not even weird to see the C64 next to a PS5^^ Anyway, very sweet video, nice sharing, those machines are just fantastic. That GEM was quite something.

@giuseppelavecchia775 2 года назад

Sono ASSOLUTAMENTE d'accordo

@piotrekka22 2 года назад

what are your fav games for amiga?

@nolake 2 года назад

I’d make a difference between the games I love because they impressed me (Beast, Dragon’s Lair, Sword of Sodan…) and the games I love because I still enjoy playing them nowadays (Battle Squadron, Unreal, Lemmings, Push Over, Pang, Blood Money…).

@Audispeedquattro 2 года назад

USA michigan has controlled the air conditioning of 19 schools with an Amiga for 30 years. Was then taken out of service due to a new acquisition, the amiga would still run out of business today

@RetroDawn 2 года назад

@@nolake You said it all with the difference between impressive and fun games. Unreal went in both camps, though, I would think. And Lionheart, Beast III, and Walker.

@bojankotur4613 2 года назад

Nice find! You can still find old PCs connected to CNC machines and other industrial machines :-)

@AmstradExin 2 года назад

Korean Sodick CNC machines come to mind, which still use PC9801 computers...

@blmartech 2 года назад

Standing next to a komo with win 95 right now.

@knietiefimdispo2458 2 года назад

Elumatec SBZ with MS-DOS and DR-DOS. I support them connecting to Windows and NetWare networks :- )

@Gazdatronik 2 года назад

@@AmstradExin Lol, I was about to bring up the Sodick EDM our last job had. It was using some sort of Sperry/Rand computer until it finally died in 2015. It was replaced with a modern computer but that Sodick is still making tooling to this day. That same factory used a HP 3000 minicomputer(1992) to handle the orders which would print out on stickers on a pair of very tall dot matrix printers. Sticker would go right on the product packages we made in the right order, and tracked all the way to a factory in Mexico where they made Semi trucks. Even the interdepartmental stuff was handled by a program called Diagraph, which we were using the 1990 release. Factories are frozen in time.

@madigorfkgoogle9349 9 месяцев назад

@@Gazdatronik it is called "Mission Critical application", even NASA is not running Ryzen CPUs in space crafts...

@notlessgrossman163 2 года назад

So many factories are run this way: old machines, some custom tooling and setups running day in day out. Outdated stuff sometimes, in rusty sheds and warehouses but still producing. Bravo to him for having kept it up running reliably

@Ori-Retro-Gamer 2 года назад

Fantastic my friend, we have the Mister FPGA, so no need for software emulation for our beloved Atari ST, so can keep working with the ST forever

@dider 2 года назад

I just love this stuff. I still hold on to my original NES and ATARI 2600 Jr. and they work just fine. Those tech were built to last!

@andyfinlay9776 2 года назад

Geweldig, maar de computer is niet het enige onderdeel. De software van Frans is ook solide en betrouwbaar. Fantastisch!

@CiprianHanga 2 года назад

I worked at a business that found a little Mac from the 80s, can’t remember which model but it had a really small screen. One chap from logistics started to record all his inventory in one spreadsheet program that was in there. This was mid 2000. It was pretty hilarious to watch.

@jmzorko 2 года назад

Wow, I first learned C on an ST soooo long ago, so this brings back good memories. His code has been running _far_ longer than anything i've written then or since, though 😃

@cmdreltonpoole6303 2 года назад

Me too - was it Sozobon C?

@jmzorko 2 года назад

@@cmdreltonpoole6303 I think it was Metacompco C on a 1040STfm. I remember having to switch floppies between the compiler and linker, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I finally saved up enough to get an SH204 20MB hard disk :-)

@SPDATA1 2 года назад

I loved❤ my 1040 STE with my Multisync NEC.

@michaelcharach 2 года назад

This video really made me smile. I love that guy, he is my hero! Long live the Atari!

@Daniel-it1dp 2 года назад

It’s great that his classic system has held up. I have PCs from the late 90’s early 2000’s that stopped working.

@johnrichardson1949 2 года назад

This is awesome, love this! Wow I'm such a nerd.

@hundgirridchannel 2 года назад

Amazing what this machine can still do after so many years of use.

@LuciRosseTV 2 года назад

my Atari Stfm is still working too.... Bought it used in 1995 to use as a sequencer, many other systems came and went, but my Cubase 2.11 is still strong and playng the songs I made in those years... Wonderful machine, never freeze and also can read pc disks, so you could exchange floppy with cubase files with a PC

@gj8313 2 года назад

Amazing!, well done👍.

@chivocircle 2 года назад

this is so wholesome, wish i had valued my old nintendo 8-bit that my dad bought me for christmas just a bit more.. ty!

@rhayadercomputers6468 2 года назад

Nice to see one being used

@nicolas-nightstar5617 2 года назад

Respects for the owner! 🤝

@Sperminski 2 года назад

Prachtig. Dit warmt mijn hart.

@bonemealmc 2 года назад

That is really cool

@roxair1 2 года назад

So much money was saved by just using the ST that simply works. Great story, thx for sharing.

@snowdog03 2 года назад

Fairly common for users to code new software in the early PC era. Lots of common programs now did not exist but were needed.

@RetroDawn 2 года назад

Indeed. Of course, this software is completely custom and still doesn't exist without customization.

@808v1 2 года назад

RU-vid recommended....and I am so glad it did :)

@pbasswil 2 года назад

I had my ST from the late '80s, and used C-Lab Notator software for sequencing synthesizers and printing out music (the Atari had built-in MIDI ports for connecting synths). For the time (before digital audio) that setup was miraculously capable! (C-Lab evolved to be Apple's current Logic Pro, the big brother of Garageband.) I also used the ST for word processing, and _LOVED_ it for that - such a revelation after the typewriter it replaced! It's true, the Ataris rarely broke down. I only got rid of mine about 15 years ago. Wouldn't you know it, it's a collectable now.

@binaryguru 2 года назад

I love the picture with the mustache, so 80's!

@Gizmo1969 2 года назад

His own software, the days you turned on a machine and became a developer!! Nowadays you end browsing aimlessly an endless mind washing stream of posts in I sta. Atari's rule!

@iliapopovich 2 года назад

I had an 8-bit Pravets in the same year and I was 11 yrs old. There was Karateka game those years and it was just great:)

@daakrolb 2 года назад

That is absolutely awesome.

@zo1dberg 2 года назад

That is amazing! 100% legitimate reason to still be using it as well!

@yannisbskt 2 года назад

One of the very first home computers i played with .it was before '88 im not really sure when... I was a little kid born in '82. Hi from Greece

@MrValz0 2 года назад

I love everything about this video. Such great machines from such an exciting time. I can't imagine how boring it must be to be a child today and have such stagnant (yet powerful) technology. It was like computing was being reinvented every year with new machines and gadgets. Thank you for sharing. :))

@AntranikMinassian 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing this awesome video. 🍻🍺

@skaneverdies 2 года назад

Worked at a very large independent record shop in my teens, where we were using early/mid 80s monochrome Macintosh computers for everything. This was as late as 2009! They were even fully networked with each other and (I'm pretty sure) the internet. Didn't think much of it at the time. They had been doing the job since 1985 and the store's needs hadn't really changed.

@KeithApp 2 года назад

This is incredible!

@henkjanvanderpol 2 года назад

Amazing, 36 years. Very impressed! Nice video, I really like the passion. I always find it impressive that a €3 ESP32 (520k / 4M, 240MHz, dual core, 32 bits) now outperforms my first PC thanks to Moore's law. But it is just as impressive that the hardware of back then can still be used for daily work.

@zarjesve2 2 года назад

It is not a "law", it is a rather "Moore's observation" ;)

@Audispeedquattro 2 года назад

USA michigan has controlled the air conditioning of 19 schools with an Amiga for 30 years. Was then taken out of service due to a new acquisition, the amiga would still run out of business today

@zarjesve2 2 года назад

You are true Amiga fanatic! There is no need to post same comment 10x times on RU-vid... we all see that Amiga is “superior”...

@madigorfkgoogle9349 9 месяцев назад

@@zarjesve2 /rant Well, he didnt get the fact that this video is about Atari ST, a real computer, not a toy computer... :/end of rant