On Mar 11, 9:28 pm, "James Sweet" wrote:


Planned obsolescence is largely a myth. No engineer that I've met designs
something specifically to fail. Rather they design something to be as cheap
to produce as possible, while still lasting "long enough". This is nothing
new, it's been going on for decades.

good point, but let's now add the lack of availability of spares and
service documentation to a lot of this stuff. This probably is an even
greater cause of its reduced life!
-B