Historical relevance of common clone PC was Re: YADA10YR (Yet Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Fri Sep 5 11:17:00 2003

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From: "Jason McBrien" <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Historical relevance of common clone PC was Re: YADA10YR (Yet
Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)


>
> Or you can get your degree. You can major in computer repair or business
> administration!
>
> Wasn't that the era when PC's became commodity enough that "Repairing" one
> meant running a DOS floppy checker on a drive to see if it's dead, and
> throwing a new one in if it was? I remember my friend's dad had a floppy
> drive alignment gadget, hooked up to an oscilloscope and let you realign
the
> heads of your floppy drive. Cost twice as much as a new floppy drive, but
if
> you fixed one twice, it's paid off :)

I still havnt made up my mind which is better, expensive computer equipment
you can repair that lasts forever or extemely cheap equipment that dies in a
few years that gets tossed. If everything made from the start of computing
was cheaply made none of us would have this hobby now, then again I dont
miss paying $700 for a 300dpi laser printer or $2000 for the first 2x CDR
burner.
Received on Fri Sep 05 2003 - 11:17:00 BST