Semi-OT: IDE & SATA to USB "dongles"

[Zane H. Healy]

At 7:44 PM -0500 6/1/06, Jim Leonard wrote:
>John Allain wrote:
>>Personally, I don't think continuous duty at all for anything >10y-o.
>
>I do my best work on my IBM 5160; it has gotten continuous use for 
>nearly two decades.

My DEC PWS 433au is right at about 10 years and gets continuous use. 
It runs 24x365, and has for the last 6 years.  A lot of people have 
VAXen that they been using for 10+ years (if not 20+), same with 
PDP-11's.  In the DEC world 10+ years isn't so much unusual, as the 
norm.  Some DEC systems have been in continuous use for 30+ years.

			Zane


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