[pupppet]

> A Kentwood High School student programmed it when it was installed in the 1980s.

Impressive!

[sublinear]

> Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area.

It is indeed impressive, but I hope there's a contract for this. Everything else about this story sounds insanely incompetent, so I... I worry.

In principle there's nothing wrong with a Motorola 68K running a system like this, but the rest of this is damned.

[jprd]

You'd probably be horrified to know what kind of systems still run most of the world's manufacturing, very much including modern chip fabs.

[doobiedowner]

Ladder logic, written by peasants. (signed: control peasant that prefers ST)

[snerbles]

Lucky you, my stakeholders would run screaming for the hills whenever they caught a whiff of written code on PLCs. All ladder, all the time.

[doobiedowner]

A fart has been lofted in your direction

[WWLink]

Would I? The amiga setup sounds totally fine to me. Aside from old HVAC equipment potentially wasting a lot of energy, I see nothing wrong with using a 40 year old computer to control everything.