One article I found randomly was a "Dinosaur Sightings: IBM 5251, 4000 Series VAX, Timex Sinclair and more" It starts out more interested but later on just seems like a few collectors posting pictures of their system lol. But still had some interesting data from 2006 on systems that were still in use.
I mentioned it in another thread but I did have some quick little stuff written in quick basic (compiled) here at my current job but after moving to a 64-bit windows environment I can't run the 16-bit dos apps anymore. At first I was going to rewrite in C but out of curiosity had me look for any 64-bit port of qbasic which I found but was unsatisfactory since it seems to run in it's own console output which I couldn't interact with (i.e. I couldn't highlight the text and copy to clipboard the output). I wrote it to output to a file also but it's quicker to copy and paste from the cli. I ended up rewriting it in vbs after using that to do some remote wmi queries. I do find it interesting that despite all the removal of features cscript/wscript are still in Windows Server 2008 so an advantage is a scripting language, readable by anyone to see the code (not an untrusted exe) and compatible from NT->today so far. I know they'll be stomping it soon for Powershell but for now it does more than I need.
I mentioned it in another thread but I did have some quick little stuff written in quick basic (compiled) here at my current job but after moving to a 64-bit windows environment I can't run the 16-bit dos apps anymore. At first I was going to rewrite in C but out of curiosity had me look for any 64-bit port of qbasic which I found but was unsatisfactory since it seems to run in it's own console output which I couldn't interact with (i.e. I couldn't highlight the text and copy to clipboard the output). I wrote it to output to a file also but it's quicker to copy and paste from the cli. I ended up rewriting it in vbs after using that to do some remote wmi queries. I do find it interesting that despite all the removal of features cscript/wscript are still in Windows Server 2008 so an advantage is a scripting language, readable by anyone to see the code (not an untrusted exe) and compatible from NT->today so far. I know they'll be stomping it soon for Powershell but for now it does more than I need.