Ok....

Would you rather pay $100,000 for a PC that would last 15 years or pay $1500
for a PC that lasts 5 years?

The PC was designed to be cost effective and so its components are not as
rugged as those found in that HP3000 you paid 100 times as much for. Also,
how many of those HP3000 components have been replaced over the years?

Different tools for different jobs.


Comments are my own.. not my employers... etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Toback [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Value
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday, the console on one of our HP3000s died. The console, an
> HP2648, was 23 years old; the HP3000 is 14 years old and
> still doing its
> job. I replaced it with a 21-year-old console (an HP2647).
>
> This weekend, I'm taking a bunch of five-year-old PCs down to the
> recycling center.
>
> How can PCs be mature if they never live to the age of
> puberty, let alone
> majority?
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
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