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<blockquote data-quote="AndrewDun" data-source="post: 1947418" data-attributes="member: 404249">I am glad that friendly software suppliers enable you to keep your old machines fully functional for you. Unfortunately the big software suppliers seem rather keen to try to force one to move to recent versions, and say that re-activation of an obsolete version is impossible.&nbsp; Although the hardware will probably fail terminally eventually, there still seems to be plenty available in working order second-hand. And it can last for many decades. The causes of failure in electronic equipment are fairly random, and it is not obvious to me that a second-hand old computer bought today has a future life expectancy substantially different from that of a new computer, particularly when taking into account the generally more robust construction of older equipment.&nbsp; I still have occasional reason to start up my 1990 Mac Classic, and it still works.I might mention incidentally that I recently found that my lathe (in more or less daily use) was built before 1916, and the 600,000 miles I have driven in my life have almost all been powered by the same 1965 diesel engine, again still in good working order. I hope it will seem me out!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AndrewDun, post: 1947418, member: 404249"] I am glad that friendly software suppliers enable you to keep your old machines fully functional for you. Unfortunately the big software suppliers seem rather keen to try to force one to move to recent versions, and say that re-activation of an obsolete version is impossible. Although the hardware will probably fail terminally eventually, there still seems to be plenty available in working order second-hand. And it can last for many decades. The causes of failure in electronic equipment are fairly random, and it is not obvious to me that a second-hand old computer bought today has a future life expectancy substantially different from that of a new computer, particularly when taking into account the generally more robust construction of older equipment. I still have occasional reason to start up my 1990 Mac Classic, and it still works. I might mention incidentally that I recently found that my lathe (in more or less daily use) was built before 1916, and the 600,000 miles I have driven in my life have almost all been powered by the same 1965 diesel engine, again still in good working order. I hope it will seem me out! [/QUOTE]

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