If you thought Windows 95 was dead, think again. Apparently, the long outdated operating system is still in use on a farm near Düsseldorf, Germany, just as it has been for decades. Not bad for an operating system that just celebrated its 30-year anniversary on August 24th.

Every day, an egg sorting machine running on Windows 95 processes up to 40,000 eggs, reliably separating them according to size, weight, and origin. According to one German news report , the Windows 95-powered machine is about 40 by 40 meters big (or 131 by 131 feet) and packs the eggs into boxes of six or ten to be sold in supermarkets.

Farmer Peter Huber says, “Windows 95 has been running smoothly ever since this thing was installed here. If something hangs somewhere, I just reboot. And then it boots up again on it

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