I guess I'm just one of those people who thinks everything should last forever.
Well, I agree with you in principle. Some things DO last "almost forever." Or have a service life that is is measured in many decades.
Or even centuries. Or more. Computer equipment doesn't tend to be among these things. I mean, what were the ancient Egyptians, the Mayans, the Stonehenge guys thinking about? Planned obsolescence was not part of their agenda. They weren't thinking along the lines of next quarter profit when they built their supercomputers. Now you can argue that those constructions weren't computers in the modern sense. But they were calculating devices, for sure. And vast projects, for sure. I mean, isn't the abacus a perfect laptop? It has never become obsolete. It's eminently portable, uses no wall wart, lasts almost forever, and coupled with a clay tablet offers long term permanent storage of data. The paperless office, 1000 BC. Of course humping those clay tablets around would have been a challenge, and you really had to trust the guys who made the data backups. But thise data backups are readable today, in some cases. Now THATS a warranty! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
