... If the machine croaks,...
What I am always wondering with this kind of statement is whether I am very lucky or many other ppl are treating their hw badly.
I have computers now for more than 20 years. And I never ever got a hardware failure.
Not entirely true, to be precise I never ever got a *serious* hardware failure.
My most serious trouble in the last 20 years:
- Once I wrongly flashed a BlizzardPPC card, which needed fixing
- one hdd which became a bit unreliable (and got substituted)
- my 1997 SCSI CDR became unlielable after 8-10 years and got retired
- an usb pen drive failed
- an ide udma cable broke
- many floppy disks went bust in the later eighties and early nineties
With this track record I am not very afraid of hardware failures.
