Not MSDOS, but I feel obliged to shared the story of an auto shop in Poland using a Commodore 64 to run the calibration and wheel balancing some years back. It was viral news at the time but worth sharing again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXdLtnt-nvE

Original Polish article - https://www.trojmiasto.pl/wiadomosci/Warszatat-samochodowy-z...

Or McLaren needing to use an ancient, very specific Compaq laptop to service the F1.

https://www.extremetech.com/cars/227828-the-mclaren-f1-super...

well, you could say that for plenty of academic research but their value is usually not obvious at the start.

was the misspellings deliberate?

A while ago I read Between Silk and Cyanide, the autobiography of one of the main actors of WW2 cryptographers, Leo Marks. He had a whole unit working on 'indecipherables', too-hard-to-decrypt messages where the field-agents either misspelled words or misused the encryption keys. You can imagine how often agents misspelled, having to do all the encryption manually under great lots of stress.

(There's an interesting story on Operation North Pole, where Marks suspected that a Dutch resistance group had been overtaken by the SS, and it was actually the SS sending the encrypted messages: all the encryption and spelling was suddenly perfect)

Looks like Q is used as an abbreviation for CH

Interestingly, in MARSQWEGES -> MARSCHWEGES, but not in WASCHBBSCH (WASQBUSQ)

i would assume yes, to throw off decyphering. even more impressive that they managed to crack it

I'm surprised "Bitte" --> "btte" was a hurdle. "Bitte," or "please," is ubiquitous in German. The more common the term, them more likely you'd be to see some contractions. Dropping the "i" is pretty logical- anyone looking at it would see immediately what it meant.

> i would assume yes, to throw off decyphering. even more impressive that they managed to crack it

Were operators of enigma machines aware enough of cryptology or the weaknesses of enigma, for that to have been done intentionally to prevent decryption? I doubt it, otherwise _many_ things should have been done _much_ differently by the operators.

Depends on the colour card, right?

Yeah, in Singapore, the cards to flex are DBS Insignia, UOB Reserve, Citi Ultima, and that black Amex.

Human in the loop.

I can see a leaderboard as their leadgen marketing strategy.

In all seriousness, if the underpants can do clinical test of the released gas, that would be a win.

The vulnerability manifest in solar balcony installation where this inverter is very popular.

That was an amazing introduction to your stories. I would love to hear them.

I wondered if any of the previous models would been able to solve this.