20 Jun
2013
20 Jun
'13
10:44 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:36:53AM -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
I would be willing to wager that they already have the
parts, and have had
them for some time. Big, important, mission critical applications, you have a
complete hot spare system that's kept current with the production one, and you
have spare parts for both. And you likely bought them new, all at the same
time.
If it's the end-user I'm thinking of, by now I think they're running hardware
(freestanding 11/70 clone at 1:1 speed) that was custom-built just for them.
So it's brand new and yes I'm sure they got a multi-decade supply of spares.
John Wilson
D Bit