In the early to mid 90s there was a program written for System 6 and/or 7 for managing an auto repair shop. The UI was very skeuomorphic and mimicked lots of elements of a repair shop: bays, lifts, file cabinets, etc. Does anyone remember this? Trying to hunt it down and so far not finding anything.
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90s Auto Repair Management
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It's funny you mention that. I have a hobby business restoring Mac mini G4s and reselling them with an SSD with the Mac OS 9 Lives hacked Mac OS 9 pre-installed to customers who still want or need to run Classic programs. I've had some interesting customers: dentists, veterinarians, and even museums. Just this week I had an auto repair business buy one. I figured there must be some old software like you mention when I got the order. I guess it's still in use. Curious to see it if you come across it.
I love the idea of these Mac-based industry pieces of software. I uploaded multiple versions of a dental patient management system several years ago. Hopefully you can find the one you're looking for!
And here I thought one of our clients using one that required Win XP was bad. (not sure of the framework or architecture it used)
Hah... I recall SCADA systems in 2015 that were still running DOS. And the worst part was, a lot of the sensors were using old specs such that they'd respond to any signal on the line with no verification or encryption, and the system just had to deal with that, as nobody was going to update the sensors until the equipment they were in was replaced.
And then people came up with replacement SCADA panels written in Java that could be connected to the Internet, taking a system that was assumed to be closed and inherently only secure due to air gapping, and opening it to anyone with VPN access.
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