[sdiy] Durability of measurement equipment, was: OT: DMM recommendations

[Michael E Caloroso]

I had a WFW311 computer in my music studio that ran flawless until the
motherboard gave up a few weeks ago.  That's 24 years.

My experience with newer Windows devices is negative and I can no
longer trust them.  The remaining Windows computer in my house is one
that the peripherals have stopped working for no reason at all -
external media drives mostly.  It sits behinds BlackIce firewall which
is HARD to get past.

I jumped ship to Mac because a newer Windows machine meant I had to
replace EVERYTHING and BlackIce no longer worked on it.  I use Windows
at work and liked it even less.  As long as I was shelling out that
kind of $$$ at home, I converted to Mac.  I'm now up to Mac Pro (the
2012 "cheese grater" 12-core model that is fetching big $$$ on the
used market), MBP 2016, iPhone, and I just replaced that old WFW311
with an iMac.

MC

On 3/7/18, sleepy_dog at gmx.de <sleepy_dog at gmx.de> wrote:
> Ingo Debus wrote:
>
>>   Any 20 years old Windows computers out there that still are doing their
>> jobs?
>
> At my old employers place they have a LeCroy waverunner with winXP, I
> think they got it 2005 or before. I know they are still using it.
> Only 13 years, but if they keep it off the network, I guess it will run
> some more years.
> It did seem a little "wild" to me that they put a desktop windows on
> that thing when I first saw it :-D
>
> - Steve
>
>
>>
>> Once I read the license agreement of a really expensive scope (I think it
>> was a LeCroy). It was said that the user was responsible for security,
>> keep virus scanners updated and things like that. How is one supposed to
>> do that once the scope is ten or twenty years old?
>>
>> Ingo
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