Nowadays, replacing most of us stuff very often, and most of our old appliances have long since been relegated to the recycling station.
For many US government agencies, it is still high demand for old computer components. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office used such a number of copies of the IBM Series 1 1976 by the Defence Forces to manage the control of nuclear weapons. To save important files are as old floppy disks of 8 inches.
it holds the American tax authorities on to Windows 3.1, an operating system from 1992. Likewise, it is still high demand for experts with knowledge of Cobol and Fortran, two programming languages that have their originating in the 1950s.
According to the report, is not less 75 percent of the IT budget for the US government spent to keep alive obsolete technologies. This is equivalent to no less than 500 billion Swedish kronor a year.
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