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Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk)
DesertNomad points out this article at The Register "about a fairly aged Pentium-based server that lasted 18+ years without much in the way of service." Reminds me that I have a pair of working, occasionally used, Pentium-based notebooks (more like lug-books), one of which is a 1999 Thinkpad, and the other a 1996 CTX. I'm sure there are plenty of boxes out there that have survived at least 18 years and that are in daily or constant use. The fans are always the tricky part! What's your best personal hardware-survival stories? I have some keyboards in active service that were made in 1984, and probably some of them go back well before that, but keyboards should last that long.
206 months? I have underwear that is older than that. Most of it unwashed.
It will help if, after picking your ass, you wash your hands instead of just holding them up to your nose.
Fucking IT guys. "This equipment does the job fine, but it's old! We need throw at least half a million dollars at it!"
Fixing a paid off car is always cheaper than financing a new one.
You've never bought a German car...
About once a year I pop all the keys off my keyboard and wipe everything down.
One year I figured I would save time by just boiling the keys briefly instead of scrubbing each one by hand... that was a mistake.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
This is all bizarre to me. I recently purchased and upgraded a Packard Bell Legend 125. I swapped out the 486SX 25 for am unused Cyrix DX2 80 and added 16mb of ram. I also upgraded the vram with 512kb 20-pin ZIP module which none of you have probably ever seen. It flies now!