Anyone have an idea how long can A500 last (or vintage comps in general)

[trogdor]

Just curious from a technical standpoint... Do silicon chips and other components on the MB have some sort of decay time. In other words if I stocked up on a couple of working A500s and kept them unused how likely would they be to power up ok years from or how good their custom chips etc would be to use for spare parts.

[trogdor]

Thanks for all the responses.
So from what you guys are saying it sounds like you could maintain the system for quite a while (I assume the appropariate capacitors and transistors which seem to be the main points of failure can always be purchased at radioshack and such, right)