[Boatanchors] Why modern gadgets vacuum your wallet when...

[K5MYJ]

I have an older motherboard (10+ years) and I run WinXP and Win2K. I used to 
run Win98. I still use Office2K and other older software.

The reason I upgraded to XP was because Norton stopped supporting 2K.

I have a lot of older engineering software that was written for Win95 that 
runs well on W2K and has a few problems on WXP.

This motherboard has a decent AMD cpu an plenty of memory for my current 
needs. So have not incentive to upgrade it.

I also have two other computers running WXP on AM2/AM3 cpus and more memory. 
They run most of the same software.

The main reason motherboards fail is the crappy electrolytic capacitors used 
when they were manufactured.

The first item to fail in non-laptop computer is the power supply.

I'm 83 and I plan to never upgrade again.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark K3MSB" <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
To: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
Cc: "Boatanchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2017 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Why modern gadgets vacuum your wallet when...


> Rob
>
> Having to buy a computer every 8 or 9 years to keep up with the web has
> little to do with the inability to troubleshoot and repair modern gadgets
> because they were intentionally made to be hard to repair.  It’s not a
> question of repair.    Your having to buy a new computer (PC) every 8 or 9
> years is because technology moves on;   You can’t produce a computer in
> 2017 that will be up to the task in 2026 for two reasons;  first we have 
> no
> idea of the technologies that will be used in 2026.  Second, if we even
> tried to build a computer that would address such technologies it would be
> so expensive you’d complain about the cost!
>
> Technology is rapidly changing,  and it will NEVER be changing so slowly 
> as
> it is right now.   Your wanting to buy a computer today that will work in 
> 8
> to 9 years as well as it does today is simply unrealistic
>
> Mark K3MSB
>
> On Nov 2, 2017 12:06 PM, "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's fine for me if a manufacturer wants to introduce say, a new model
>> automobile every year and if some folks are suckers and pee away their
>> money on a new car every 3 years or so that's their business and I can
>> and do "opt out" of that game.  What's changed now is that with
>> software, consumers are being forced to buy new in ever shortening
>> cycles whether they want to or not.  Right now it's mostly with IT
>> stuff, but I see this forced purchase method via software gradually
>> getting into more products.  It already chaps my ass that I have to
>> buy a new computer every 8 or 9 years in order to keep using resources
>> like eBay etc.  You may someday quit seeing me on the Internet because
>> I'll just refuse to keep junking perfectly good computers to stay
>> on-line.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
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