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		westiseast on Sept 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Photos of Soviet control rooms Same, went on a tour of a U.K. nuclear power plant and its all 1960s tech like this. I asked why and they said you can't afford the risk of bugs/problems for the efficiency gains you might achieve with new kit.

officemonkey on Oct 1, 2017 [–]

I talked to the person who wrote a program that displayed reactor data on a computer screen. She wrote it in FORTRAN in the late 80s.

They're still using it 30 years later. She confirmed that her programming passed Y2K with flying colors.

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