23 Apr
2012
23 Apr
'12
1:27 p.m.
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Jules Richardson wrote:
1) I've had far more faults with modern hardware
*that I can't fix* than I
have with older items,
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my
telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to
use my telephone." - Bjarne Stroustrup
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).
And, therefore, 30 year old computer equipment is far more reliable than
CURRENT; it can't run Windoze!