I can still get parts for my Sears Drill Press purchased in 1983. I'm pretty sure I can fit new bearings and other pieces onto my 1935 Delta Band Saw. Granted my South Bend 10L is no longer made it's still repairable and it was originally sold to the Ordinance Officer Edmonton in 1942.
The concept that a tool sold in 2001 and can no longer be repaired or perhaps safely used after 2014 is a modern concept that bothers me a lot. I read somewhere that this century will go down in history as the most 'undocumented' century in human history when historians look back 500 or 1000 years from now. If you think that's silly try and read an 8" floppy disk or even an quad density 3.5" disk that is 15 years old. The usual result, especially from Win7 is "This floppy is not formatted. Would you like it formatted now?" CD ROMs have a life. The information does degrade. When was the last time you pulled out that CD with pictures of your children's birth or 1st birthday and rewrote them to a new CD. The sheer volume of photographs makes organizing them tedious and therefore unlikely. When you die will your kids methodically go through them all and re-organize into their photo albums? Or will the CDs, and the plastic jewel cases be tossed into recycling. One of the advantages of Windows over the Apple is that with every revision change they maintained a certain amount of backwards compatibility. With Apple an new revision will often 'break' existing applications and if that software company is no longer in business too bad. And traditionally you cannot roll back a revision on Apple hardware. Linux is even worse. Just recompile the source code is the mantra. The moving target of Linux distributions is laughable for the longevity of any product. Were it different and not geek programmer oriented the IBM PC hardware and Apple hardware would both be running Linux distributions. Android may still win this battle but it's hard to say if it's linux underpants will be soiled by the runs at some point too. John Dammeyer > -----Original Message----- > From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > Sent: October-09-14 2:51 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Oscilloscope + logic analyzer (PC based) > > On 9 October 2014 07:02, Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> > wrote: > >> Just an observation that these little pocket scopes and logic analyzers > have > >> a very short lifetime. > > > > Yup, when the host is M$-based, that's particularly true. > > That seems a little unfair. How long did MS support XP for? It was > released in 2001 and support ended in 2014. > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer > Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports > Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper > Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.cl > ktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
