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I was a professional software engineer from 1979 until forced to retire. C/C++, Fortran-66/77, Delphi/Pascal plus other occasional sideroads as demanded by the project are in my skill set. What I am trying to do is process raw data from a substantial collection of multi-vendor dataloggers which...

The source code is bog standard C++, I'll be able to compile it with something here. The database is Oracle, I don't doubt that it will be possible to port, the rest is a LARGE group of binary datafiles, some of which are megabytes in length, just raw data.

A few days ago, I got a mail from Microsoft saying it wanted to load updates and reboot one of my systems. It had a "button" to poke to delay this act which I pressed. I had a job running, which had been grinding through a number set for days and was showing 80% complete. The next day, it popped...