6 Oct
2007
6 Oct
'07
3:06 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
But as I said elsewhere, for my clients today, if a
machine is less
than a couple of gigahertz, it's skipware. It's not worth my time to
try to diagnose a fault; if it fails, swap it out and replace it with
a new machine.
I think we've done this to death before. You are talking about a
commercial situation where time is money, Tony is talking about the
vintage gear at home, where money is usually more scarce.
No business I've worked in would consider component-level repair:
it is simply not economical. But at home things are different, at
least for the vintage stuff. Even if you do have a spare PDP-8 to
swap in, at least you've said you'll pass the old one on to us :-)
Antonio
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