Posted by AZ Nomad on 10/22/05 00:46

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:41:55 GMT, NunYa Bidness <nunyabidness@nunyabidness.org> wrote:

> But that's where we need to put our minds. If you want a twenty year
>PC, you should make a twenty year case, and then mutate the guts as
>time and technology goes by, keeping the machine up to snuff.


Works for me. I've owned two cases since I bought my first IBM PC clone in
late '93. The first case started life as a 33mhz 486, then a 120mhz 586 and
finally as a 200mhz pentium before being retired. It was retired because the
case was an obsolete AT case. It's replacement, an atx case, started life as a
dual P3 motherboard that only ever had one cpu installed, then a athlon 1800
and currently an athlon 2800. It is soon to be upgraded to an amd64.

It gets upgraded about every 9 months, last upgrade was to replace three
80G drives with a pair of 250G drives.

I've sold used computers made up of retired parts.

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