Wrote excels that controlled building automation and heat exchanger settings, collected water and electricity meter data automatically and created bills ready to print and mail to tenants.
That was about quarter century ago.

Yes and no. That model still gets updates. One I have has no active support licence, so it has to be updated manually.

No. It’s proprietary custom SoC that runs heavily modified unix on ARM.
But software is solid and patches come out lightning fast.

Same idea here. Fortigate 30f (since I can dl updates manually), Fortiswitch 124e (same) and 2 FortiAP 421E’s (ditto). All but ap’s I could grab from employers “ditch bin”.

If couple reports are true, it is already breached and can be mined for info.
Edit: https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/

I presume from superb owl that you are from USA.
No. It was deemed legal and fair use as was recording radio on c-cassettes.
Considering digitizing, Web stores are full of usb capture dongles and rca/scart adapters. Obs and Videolan are free and easy to use.
For editing, Openshot is free and quite easy to use.
All these are available on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Sounds like 'murrica.

Obligatory “Way ahead of you” post.

Their private ftp seems to have disappeared as well as site admins contact info. I thing “going private” means “going away completely”.

Personally I wouldn’t mind having a phone with modern cababilities and Nokia Communicator / E7 type keyboard.

Scourge of Carpathia? Sorrow of Moldavia? That Vigo?