Eliyahu Kamisher / SiliconValley.com
How clever mechanics keep 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps – Keeping BART running is far from easy. Mechanics rely on frankensteined laptops operating Windows 98, train yard scraps, and vintage computer chips. When BART first carried passengers, the country was sending astronauts to the moon. The Apollo-era trains were symbols of a generation barreling toward a space-age future complete with …
