>> Find your local LUG and ask around. I can virtually guarantee that there >> someone with a storage unit full of old hardware they are keeping for some >> reason. Even better if you have a local FreeGeek. > > Who would keep all the old hardware? And for what? And it's nothing > you could rely on. >
Geeks would keep that hardware. For what? For the same reason that Hillary climbed Everest. > How do you maintain 15 or 30 year old hardware? > Cooling, circuit breakers, relaxed duty cycle. And prayer, if you're into that. > If you don't buy everything new, you can't put your old hardware into > storage in working order in case you need it to read some data in 30 > years. > If the issue is saving $20 on a case, then you are just $20 short of having a working solution. Sounds good to me. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
