No doubt this is how plenty of serial killers got their start. Soon, pillows won't be good enough and she'll feel the need to start stitching real human skin into her clothing... Keep an eye out for a pit being dug in her basement, and bulk purchases of skin lotion.
"The bullets scream to me from somewhere Here they come to snuff the rooster, aww yeah Yeah here come the rooster, yeah You know he ain't gonna die No, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die" http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/11812/
Defensive weapons lagged and took quite some time to catch-up, but they're out there now, and installed on aircraft carriers. Phalanx CIWS, Aegis weapon system, etc. And with over-the-horizon offensive weapons like cruise and GPS-guided missiles, and the any-day-now ballistic rail-guns, ships can be safely out of reach, while bombarding enemies.
It really only sounds odd because it's a whole standalone computer. If you said "Michigan school district's A/C controlled by Z80 (processor) for past 30 years!" nobody would bat an eyelash, and it wouldn't be even slightly unusual.
Having seen this kind of thing first-hand, the headline just screams "We invested in equipment with a proprietary, undocumented interface, and now we're stuck!" Because it's the easiest thing in the world to migrate a controller to a newer platform if you have the documentation, and it's huge nightmare to keep such uncommon old systems up and running. The littlest thing, like replacing a keyboard, or debugging a simple intermittent connection failure on an old, discontinued system becomes a massive and frustrating ordeal.
Meanwhile, if they had instead used a Unix-based system, like a Sun 68k workstation, it would have been pretty easy to upgrade to modern equivalents, and easy to find hardware, software, and people to continue to maintain it. Ditto for PCs running DOS, though in both cases the choice is infinitely easier to see in retrospect.
Here they come to snuff the rooster, aww yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die"
http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/11812/
Meanwhile, if they had instead used a Unix-based system, like a Sun 68k workstation, it would have been pretty easy to upgrade to modern equivalents, and easy to find hardware, software, and people to continue to maintain it. Ditto for PCs running DOS, though in both cases the choice is infinitely easier to see in retrospect.