"Huge" wrote in message ...
On 2015-01-02, William Sommerwerck wrote:

His basic premise makes sense -- more components = lower reliability
-- but the fact is that one can easily find electronic devices 50 and 60
years old that have never been serviced that continue to work. Members
of this group probably own them.

This is a category error. Yes, we all have 'n' year-old electronic devices,
because we have thrown away the ones that have failed.

That's logically correct. But I have 40 to 50 year old Sony and KLH products
that work fine. Whereas Sony stuff from the last 15 years is gradually falling
apart.