"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 03/03/2019 23:50, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:25:25 +0000, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

On 25/02/2019 20:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/02/2019 15:52, abueloeddie wrote:
Previously running several PC / M/S machines They would fail
catastrophically and cost £££ each time to repair or replace.

Now ru8nning several PC/Linux machines. None havce failed
catastrophically although there is not much of this one left from
original. Its all been upgrade over the last 10 years. think the DVD
drive and case are original..


Trigger's Broom ....

"Grandfather's axe" being the original expression from which the OF&H
gag was derived (hence the derogatory expression, "That's rather
derivative." usually applied to popular music).

Its a great story that both establishes a philsophical isse of 'identity'
and the stupidity of allowing a semantic description to override the
reality, and also the idea that a computer is not a discrete entity,
except in the mind. It is a collection of user interchangeable components
any one of which may be upgraded without reference to any other. Although
new MB needs new RAM ususally.

Cases cost money. £60 these days with PSUs.

Motheboard and RAM and CPU? Well boards and RAM arent bad but CPUS have
gone through the roof. Intel stuff is top £100-200 for ANYTHIUNG. Gone are
the sub £100 CPU days.

Bull**** with celeron and pentium cpus.

Best MB/RAM/CPU deal I found is around £130 for an AMD class mobo.

Reflecting the market where a home PC is now an ARM chip in a smartphone
of fondleslab.