23 Apr
2012
23 Apr
'12
8:41 a.m.
On 04/23/2012 05:12 AM, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
I've had *many* more years of PC experience, and I've yet to see one fail
as bad as the SGI I used in college between '91-96 (let's see ... the SGI
required a new video card and the mother board replaced twice; also, the
video monitor slowly lost colors over time as well).
I suspect most of us can come up with isolated cases like that though (both
on the vintage and modern side of the coin).
I suspect the split's been roughly even for me, but (straying from the
topic a little) two points from my own personal observations:
1) I've had far more faults with modern hardware *that I can't fix* than I
have with older items,
2) I've had far more *software* glitches bring modern hardware to its knees
than I have with older kit.
Ultimately it's downtime and inconvenience that matters to me more than
failure rate, I think - and for me the older, simpler approaches win out
there (which isn't to say that it works out that way for everyone).
cheers
Jules
I've
received more digital cameras to repair lately than 1960's
discrete-component calculators. Does that mean modern digital
cameras are less reliable than 1960s discrete calculators?
In case anyone still cares, in my case, the lesson from experience
still holds when corrected for such effects. Indeed, for several years
I ran more machine-hours of Suns than peecees and I _still_ had more
peecee hardware failures.