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One of my older jobs relied on ancient hardware, and the life of the company was measured by parts in the warehouse and vendors who still cared. From their perspective they'd have a modern system as long as your company delivers.

> hey haven't shown any interest in updating the system.

So expensive to update that there's a calculated end-of-life to the system. They'd love to know about your engineer situation. That'd trigger plans put in place a while ago.

Your company could do a last big batch for the city and send the old guy out with a nice bonus.