On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
Well, quite.
To be honest, I've not tried my Miggy 1200 in 4-5 years, but it was
fine when I last tried it, and it was pushing 20 then. I tend to find
1980s machines last better than 1990s / early noughties mass-produced
low-quality PCs.
The 1200 is susceptible to leaky caps under the floppy drive area of
the motherboard. Many people replace them with great success though.
And working 1200 motherboards are still plentiful.
I think early surface mount components had some reliability issues.
Either that or cheaper parts were speced. After all, everyone will
have upgraded their computer long before then. Why would a computer
ever need to last more than five years?
brian