23 Feb
2003
23 Feb
'03
4:09 a.m.
PC: no, you throw away a subsystem and get a
replacement. The
problem here is that any given subsystem (e.g., a video card) is
only on the market for maybe two years; after that you can't get
an identical replacement. Original-spec PDP-8 replacement parts
were available for over 20 years.
While not quite the same as 20 years, you *can* still get identical,
new, many year old 'replacement' parts for PCs. It's probably easier to