Re: Mac longevity

[John-Robert La Porta]

Then again, we have to look at unplanned longevity as well. I have 60 
year old radios with vacuum tubes that still function perfectly. No way 
were those tubes made to last for that long. Good care and good 
manufacturing can go along way. You just have to see how the components 
hold up.

-John

On Mar 30, 2004, at 1:50 AM, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote:

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:06:14PM -0600, Jeff Walther wrote:
Does anyone understand why, ten years or more after the EOL for a
product, companies aren't willing to release these kinds of details
to the hobbyist community?   It's not like they're ever going to use
that particular PAL design again.
I can't speak for companies like Apple (besides that IP bit I ranted
on a week or two back), but the Apple II community has discussed
replicating certain cards.  The PALs tend to be a problem, but they
usually cannot find the designers or the designers cannot find the
design!  There is a lot of stuff out there which is just plain lost.
Byron.


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