I am from the desktop tech field, and since I joined this forum, I am amazed at the number of folks using real old versions of CW. I have not encountered this anywhere else,except the old ham radio guys who are dying off. Pro Audio 4 is for sale on ebay!
Is anyone still using Microsoft Office 98?  Supercalc?  Wordstar? Whoops wrong OS....I guess because for a lot of things the software still works, but I would be afraid of it just stopping one day. What other fields do you know of that still use software that is 5-10 years old or older?
 
Just curious about the phenomenon.

I find the needle seats are pretty much shot in most software after 3 or 4 years

It may have something to do with the fact that the average age of Sonar's user base seems to be relatively high and some of the older folk are less impressed with the idea of shiny new fangled things, and also perhaps because you tend to get more careful with money as you get older. So the older you are, the more likely you are to convince yourself that what you have is perfectly good and there's no need to replace it. 

I still have a Dell Inspirion laptop running Windows 98, but only because it can't be upgraded and I bought it in 1999 for $5 from a friend.  It STILL plays games and runs an old version of Office.  I'll probably donate it to Free Geek up here along with tons of other ancient things I've kept for decades.
 
Heck, I still have a working BAT keyboard in great condition!  This was the keyboard originally created to be used with a mouse by Bell Labs.  You only need one hand to use it and, with a very short learning curve, you can type about 45 words per minute using chording techniques.
 
Here's what they look like and how to use 'em!  They make one for the right hand as well (if you prefer to use the mouse with your left).
 

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I bet the censors didn't think of that, did they? 

It's early, no coffee, and it took me  a few seconds to recognize the Morse code. I learned that at ~13 for the Boy Scouts, which prompted my Dad to get us involved in ham radio. Then Navy training,and a career in electronics and computers. I am almost embarrassed it took as long as it did for me to get it. I got up to 15 wpm( any old hams remember the Ft Collins bdcsts?) before joining the Navy and letting all that slide.

What morse code?

I still haven't had my coffee
The white squares are short(dot) and the black squares are long(dash)
Some are correct, most are not. A P Q to name a few
 
Maybe it's what they should have done
 
Coffee's ready..... 

Unicode is a fad. ASCII forever!