Joe Hart wrote: > One thing that I dislike about computers over the years is that the hardware changes so rapidly. I have a computer with a dead motherboard that has 768MB of RAM on it that I'm pretty sure is good, but I have no other computer that uses those types of DIMMs. I can probably pick one up from e-bay, but don't have need for another computer at the moment, and if I do, I'll probably just build my own from newer components. > > Oh well, I suppose if technology is going to evolve, older technology must move aside. It's just that it happens so quickly. Moore's Law is still in effect, much to the chagrin of greybeards like me. I can remember the days when 16K of RAM was a lot. > > Joe
It's shame that there is not a "normal" (non e-bay) supply channel for parts for some old architectures. Every other equipment manufacturers have obligations to continue to produce spare parts for years after some product have ended. Yesterday, brother in law called me and cried because his athlon xp socket A board died. Yet still i see very often almost new CNC machines that are using 386, 486 and PI. That is one of reasons i keep some of this old junk around. Few days ago I had to connect laser cutter to network but it had network card with only thin ethernet on ISA. I could sell one of my ancient isa card for $200 because owner was desperate. Some people are still making money utilizing old pc-s. Some car testing appliances are equipped with only serial connector which many current notebooks are missing. Last year one of my partners changed PI 75MHz server running oracle 5 on sco unix (with 5-7 terminals) to win-xeon-server with pc clients and vb applications and now is regretting. Not only that he's not satisfy with new applications but he spent a lot of money on new setup. Do i need to mention that old applications were unbreakable. It's mystery to me how linux didn't took over some deals from dying unix. -- Mirko Scurk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
