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From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Wed May 28 03:07:00 2003

It was thus said that the Great Dwight K. Elvey once stated:
>
> I think these older machines are easier to work on. Things
> are more exposed and excessable. Most of the newer machines
> one has today are not even as repairable( motherboard fails,
> swap out motherboard! ).

  As much as I hate to say this, but isn't this inevitable? Take, for
instance, a homebrewed 6502 system---a gate in one of the 74xx series chips
blows, you can't repair the chip, unlike say, a PDP-1 where the offending
transistors/diodes can be repaired in the single blown gate. So you have to
toss *the entire chip* and replace it.

  Replacing a card (or motherboard) is that, only writ large.

  And I see the beginnings where if some component on the computer fails,
you replace the computer (I would imaging this happens at Google with their
multi-thousand PC clusters).

  -spc (Not that I like this, but I see this as a trend ... )
Received on Wed May 28 2003 - 03:07:00 BST