"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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Funny story about that. The pressure vessel was controlled by an
ancient program running in FORTRAN (if you can imagine that).
Honeywell asked me to consult (after I had been a Metrologist for them
some years earlier) on how to translate the FORTRAN to HP Basic.

funny story about that... i just got tasked to dig up the fortran code for a
product my company is just thinking of upgrading to something more modern.
they just finally ran up against windows xp that refuses to run the old dos
extender the fortran was linked with... then it was wrapped with a windows
gui that just ran the old fortran executable in the background. the gui
will probably be more problems to update than the fortran if i can find the
source... it uses visual c++ 1.52 i think, the last of the 16 bit windows
compilers from ms.