Old technology

To those of you actively looking for jobs, what is the oldest technology you've seen listed? I stumbled across the following today.

"3-4 years experience in a PC/LAN operating environment that includes: DOS (all versions), Windows (3.1, 95, 98 and NT) and Novell (3.11, 3.12, 4.11), Microsoft (Access, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Word), Lotus (cc:Mail and Organizer)."

Amazing.

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veritas_libertas

It's probably just something they post every time they are looking for someone. The oldest stuff I have seen is W2K, and 2000 server. Then again, I haven't been in IT nearly as long as some out there

millworx

I got a job offer that I turned down that was looking for someone with strong Windows NT4 experience. And it was not a joke! They had 200 NT4 servers from 12 years ago they never upgraded.

Lotus notes, I've had many clients that still run Lotus alongside with Exchange. Weird I know. Lotus is in decline but not dead yet. Novell is pretty much dead, but a lot of the school systems in California use Novell 4/5

veritas_libertas

millworx wrote: »

I got a job offer that I turned down that was looking for someone with strong Windows NT4 experience. And it was not a joke! They had 200 NT4 servers from 12 years ago they never upgraded.

Lotus notes, I've had many clients that still run Lotus alongside with Exchange. Weird I know. Lotus is in decline but not dead yet. Novell is pretty much dead, but a lot of the school systems in California use Novell4/5

You make me cringe...

We are a Notes shop and I don't see that ending any time soon...

Hypntick

millworx wrote: »

I got a job offer that I turned down that was looking for someone with strong Windows NT4 experience. And it was not a joke! They had 200 NT4 servers from 12 years ago they never upgraded.

Lotus notes, I've had many clients that still run Lotus alongside with Exchange. Weird I know. Lotus is in decline but not dead yet. Novell is pretty much dead, but a lot of the school systems in California use Novell 4/5

Egad I know. Currently working with notes and exchange together. They only keep notes around for the databases. Regularly using AS/400 and mainframes up here. Makes me want to cry.

Dakinggamer87

I haven't used Novell Netware or DOS for so many years

Daniel333

Lets see what some of my clients have that scares me, skimming docs for 70 clients here...

1) a Cisco Hub
2) Cisco 2501
3) PIX501
4) Cisco 2924xl
5) NT4 terminal server
6) NT4 domain
7) SQL server 6.5

Exchange 2000
9) a Windows 98 machine being used for some scanner app
10) MacOS 9 for some crazy tax app
11) CallManaged 4.2 (I think they are on 8 now?!)
12) A bunch of pentium 3 laptops
13) Citrix Metaframe 3.something
14) ESX3.5

phantasm

If you deal with medical companies then you with all sorts of old hardware. For instance the one I worked at contained NT servers, AIX, SCO and a few Windows 98 machines (drivers were never upgraded by the manufacturer of the scanning hardware). It's completely terrifying what you can find in some companies.

Firemarshalbill.com

I have seen a bank ask for X.25

hypnotoad

6 mo. ago I saw cobol and jcl. This was for a PC tech job.

petedude

phantasm wrote: »

If you deal with medical companies then you with all sorts of old hardware. For instance the one I worked at contained NT servers, AIX, SCO and a few Windows 98 machines (drivers were never upgraded by the manufacturer of the scanning hardware). It's completely terrifying what you can find in some companies.

You see this stuff in any field requiring specialized automation software/hardware. I used to work for a utility company that had mission-critical delivery applications running on. . . OS/2 Warp 3. And that was only a handful of years ago. . .

SteveO86

While cleaning out one of our district offices we came across some an Windows for Workgroup laptop.. It was pretty sweet not in production just some old forgotten piece of tech.

Found a hub or two a few years ago and some all 10 MB switches but that's about all I got.

eMeS

hypnotoad wrote: »

6 mo. ago I saw cobol and jcl. This was for a PC tech job.

COBOL and JCL are very big, however, it doesn't make sense that those would be requirements for a PC tech job...

MS

N2IT

eMeS wrote: »

COBOL and JCL are very big, however, it doesn't make sense that those would be requirements for a PC tech job...

MS

MS

My mother is a JCL / COBOL / DB2 IT professional.

She is consistently getting tagged for jobs that pay over 6 figures a year. I guess all the good ones are starting to die off. I mean she is old school, she has been doing it for 30 years.

And the PC JOB tech doesn't make a bit of sense. That is so far from apart from each other it's not even funny.

hypnotoad

eMeS wrote: »

COBOL and JCL are very big, however, it doesn't make sense that those would be requirements for a PC tech job...

MS

Yeah I know they're big. They're also old. The smithsonian has a display up right now about COBOL's 50th birthday.

eMeS

hypnotoad wrote: »

Yeah I know they're big. They're also old. The smithsonian has a display up right now about COBOL's 50th birthday.

Yep, old stuff that companies have a ton invested in...

Still, I can't understand why someone would want those skills in a pc tech...

MS

erpadmin

hypnotoad wrote: »

Yeah I know they're big. They're also old. The smithsonian has a display up right now about COBOL's 50th birthday.

Cobol and DB2 have not gone anywhere in a number of PeopleSoft shops. One of my tasks is compiling delivered COBOL for the HR/Student Admin/Financials applications. PeopleSoft heavily uses COBOL, and I have to run stored statements against the database whenever COBOL is compiled. I will admit though, that is the suckiest part of being (an) erpadmin....

Trust me, COBOL isn't going anywhere....PeopleSoft/Oracle always promised that Application Engine would replace COBOL.....this was more than 8 years back....

mikedisd2

petedude wrote: »

You see this stuff in any field requiring specialized automation software/hardware. I used to work for a utility company that had mission-critical delivery applications running on. . . OS/2 Warp 3. And that was only a handful of years ago. . .

I know of OS/2 machines out there in production. They just keep going, and while they keep going, don't touch it...