Re: [ARSCLIST] The future of analog (fwd)

[Roderic G Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with you Steve that built in obsolescence has
always been the way of marketing in North America. 
I'm proud to say that I'm adapting my old Pentium III
to work as a server.  

As far as my '64 Bug (AKA "Beetle"), it gets better
mileage than all of the big SUVs and most of the other
kinds of vehicles.  And, there's less to go wrong on
my simple little four cylinder.  It won't be scrap
metal for years to come and gains every day in vintage
value.  Let's hear it for conservation in many ways,
shapes and forms.

Rod Stephens

--- steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note also that digital equipment meets the same
> fate...only (in
> most cases) more quickly! Check out the yard-sale
> prices for
> Pentium I and II machines...and other hardware of
> that vintage!
> 
> I'm currently using a Pentium III IBM machine that
> cost me $150
> Canadian about a year ago (right now I could buy a
> PIII WITH used
> monitor for about $60!). I'm guessing that digital
> audio software
> and hardware has the same negative-exponential "rate
> of appreciation?!"
> 
> I've found working (but obsolete) machines in the
> trash (aka
> "Boulevard Surplus," as in "Oh, I got that from
> Boulevard
> Surplus a month or two ago...!")
> 
> We live in an age when things aren't repaired (or in
> many cases
> repairable!)...but simply replaced, with the old
> stuff added to
> our ever-increasing "landfill crisis!"
> 
> Where/when I grew up, you didn't discard something
> until it was
> absolutely beyond all hope of being brought back to
> "working"
> status...and, if you did, you stripped it of all
> reusable
> parts and threw out the carcass! I was with the USAF
> in Germany
> 1966-70...and the same "modus operandi" applied to
> the ubiquitous
> VW "beetles." You would often see their carcasses,
> stripped of
> all reusable parts, being hauled off as scrap metal!
> 
> Na und?
> 
> ...stevenc
> http://users.interlinks.net/stevenc/
>