Around year 1998 I talked at a conference with a consultant who was telling me that Corps of Engineers was pressured into replacing PDP-11s with PCs and Windows, to control dams on Columbia River.


I worked on that system! It was called CROHMS (Columbia River Operational Hydromet Management System) and it was during my first job in "the field" (after giving up my fledgling career as a DJ/Music Director, because commercial radio is one fucked up industry!), working for EG&G.......in 1978! Good to see those ancient, 64K holding, core-based (!) systems are still plugging along....