Re: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to the Receptor for Mobius

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Nah--hard drives aren't designed to last more than a few years, the
motherboard and power supply batteries likewise.  Cart a laptop around
to regular gigs for a few years and it's going to be hurting, quickly.
 Personal computers are disposable items.

A PCM-42 holds its value far better than any laptop running a PCM-42 
emulator.

"...runs Windows 95 as well as the day it was born."

Left-handed praise if I ever heard it...

TravisH

On 10/14/05, Jeff Larson <Jeffrey.Larson@sun.com> wrote:
> Travis Hartnett wrote:
>  > Oh, they're both software solutions--one just has a dedicated hardware
>  > platform to run it on.  Dedicated hardware tends to be more stable,
>  > and computers depreciate at a furious rate.  What are the odds that
>  > your laptop will be running in ten years?
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> I can appreciate the advantages of dedicated hardware, but this is a
> specious argument.  I agree that dedicated hardware tends to be more
> stable, but the reason computers deprecate is because we keep trying
> to do more with them every year.  I have a ten year old laptop that
> runs Windows 95 as well as the day it was born.  No one uses these any
> more simply because they don't have to.  I gave mine to my kids and
> they abuse the crap out of it.  The only problem I've ever had with
> old computers is a broken CD ROM drive after having a hunk of Laffy
> Taffy and a few Polly Pocket shoes crammed into it.  Something which
> is no more difficult to replace than the rotary encoders on a Vortex :-)
>
> Jeff
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