Question For The List

Tony Duell wrote: What you're possibly missing here is that people like me choose a product _because of the availability of scheamtics and repair parts_. I actually tracked down and bought a genuine Teac floppy drive for this PC becasue I could get a service manual for it. Said drive cost over 10 times as much as a non-name, no-docs drive from the local PC shop. -------------------------------------- Billy: Tony, as far as I know you are unique - there are no other people like you. (And no, I'm not judging you - I regard myself as unique in lots of ways, and proudly.) But let's ask the list: is there anybody else out there or that you know who buys a product only if it has repair documentation available? And as a corollary, do you only buy products you want to run 20 years? Or can you accept a product as being expendable? How long should a computer part last? Billy