🚀 go-pugleaf

The way that I solve the problem of New is Bad/Old is Good is to buy those
old things that were good and fixable and those new things that I don't care
if I can or can't fix.

Really, if I'm buying a $5 pair of walkman headphones, who cares if they
break?  BTW I actually had a Radio Rip Off Store sales-droid offer me a plan
where for like $20 I could replace the headphones up to so many times in so
many months.  What if they didn't ever break?  Then I would have spent $25
on a $5 pair of headphones.  Silly.  Maybe good for runners, but I'm a sit-
in-chair-and-program-until-my-eyes-fall-out-of-my-head type person.  I don't
break headphones very often.

On the other hand, I require that my computers be repairable quickly and at
minimal cost.  I'm willing to accept 'obsolete' technology to accomplish this.

My current machines are an ORIGINAL IBM PC, an old Canon XT clone and a Mac
SE.  All of which, except the SE sort of, are very repairable.  In fact, I
spend alot of time doing that.  =-)  They cost, however, almost nothing to
repair.  In fact I have a friend who owns a reseller place.  If I have a bad
part I take it to him and he finds the same part and gives it to me with
the knowledge that I'll deal with him on big purchases (by big I mean $100)
in the future.  =-)   Now THAT'S service.  He even helps to fix my machines
for free because he knows I'll come back.  You can't get that from any other
place in my town.  ($40/hour to do something I could do myself if I had time?)

Anthony Clifton