Sentence examples for ancient computer from inspiring English sources

Vince Cable said Nats had been "penny wise and pound foolish" and was running "ancient computer systems, which then crash".

This was his home when we met, an ancient computer at one end, a fungal bed at the other.

It had some old tins of paint, bin bags, shopping bags, Christmas stuff and a couple of ancient computer monitors.

Michael Chabon described working on his first novel while precariously perched over an ancient computer in a crawl space of his parents' home in Oakland, Calif.

Fixing them could mean wading through millions of lines of ancient computer code.In the longer term, more dramatic effects would appear.

Most of the furniture was in storage and a thick layer of dust and grime coated the few items that remained: a cheap phone and an ancient computer.

The ancient computers that have operated the civil-service system since the 1980s will not hit the junk pile anytime soon.

There's a museum of ancient computers and a whiteboard carrying greetings in every possible language - including Elven from Lord of the Rings.

They're computers – often ancient computers running operating systems no longer supported by the manufacturers – and they don't have any magical security technology that the rest of the industry isn't privy to.

That's the mission of the museum, though: the Apple I, along with dozens of other ancient computers, from Altairs to mainframes from the 60's, are deliberately there to be touched and, if not truly understood (few kids know BASIC these days), at least experienced.

When we're old, this internet thing will be ancient, computers will be the size of atoms, and our kids will laugh at us trying to figure out how to use the brain-to-Matrix holographic interface.