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Coming from an age of C64 and Amiga computers I always thought that electronic stuff lasted pretty much forever.
It's certainly true that modern electronics are far worse in this respect. I've had to replace the house alarm box which wasn't old but suddenly started going off on it's own, and more recently I've had to replace a broadband router which seemed to be working fine but made it look like there was a fault with the connection as it kept dropping.
A lot of it is to do with the cheap components that are used these days to cut costs. So you end up with things like the capacitor problem on PC motherboards.
I really hope CBM hardware continues to last as it's starting to get old. I'm dreading getting the A1200 out and firing it up again, mind you it is an Escom jobbie so it's not as old as some.
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