asian1 wrote:
In principle, a machine will NEVER die, because it is possible to replace spareparts. Even my old IBM PC (1981) still works, after CPU, chipset and RAM replacement.
Yes, but you are slowly decommissioning it. When you have replaced everything except the HD, you have effectively taken out the storage part of the brain and put it in something else. If you then add a new HD, then you are copying the brain storage into a new machine.
Even if you kept the same CD drives you are only transplanting them onto the new machine.
We have a new PC - new case, mobo, ram, hd and gfx card. We have the same sound card, hd (to boot from), cd-rw, cd-rom, and monitor. To you, this would just be an upgrade, but to us it's a whole new machine with the best of the old grafted on :-)
/me stops talking about computers as if they were human :-P
