<SNIP...> Oh, changes in the wheatbelt have been as dramatic. Back then, a harvester was a machine you could tow behind your tractor. Now it's self-powered, a machine you need to climb a ladder to get up to its air-conditioned cockpit.
The air-conditioning now is for the on-board farming computers. (As an example: http://www.pfs.ab.ca/Products.htm or links to more examples: http://www.prairielinks.com/aglinks/Farm_Equipment/Precision_Farming/.) I don't think the tractors run VMS yet but I bet there is one out there running Linux! Maybe, someday soon near you, your local farmer's tractor will have a VMS Penguin farm on board! (Or more likely, remotely operated by one! "Look Ma no driver!")
-Dale
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