11 Sep
2004
11 Sep
'04
10:29 a.m.
What's the point in having a working machine if
you never run
it?
I agree that machines should, in general, be run if possible.
Not all the time, but on a reasonably regular basis. (Assuming
you are a museum. For me at home, I'll run them when I need to
to perform some task, or when I want to. The rest of the time
they stay switched off - I cannot afford the power or the
space to run them all 24x7!)
so
what's the difference between having a working machine you never run
because it might do damage and a machine that's got some custom chip
failed becuase you did actually run it?
In the future we might have the technology to probe those
ancient chips and figure out how to build a replacement.
Hopefully.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org