"Bill Daniels" wrote in message
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I still have an IBM PC XT that works as well as the day it was bought back
in 1985. It just doesn't do anything useful in today's world. I expect the
"glass cockpits" to be the same.

That is precisely my point.

Where I work we have tossed at least three generations of perfectly good
computers over the last ten years. We are now replacing all of our phones with
the new VOIP technology, and I am willing to bet you will not be able to find
one of these units still in service five years from now.

Vaughn