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rahentoday at 1:57 PM1 replyview on HN

That thing is a Tamagochi though, it constantly needs attention, pardon the pun. I did most of the development and tuning on ll-34 for that reason.


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budman1today at 2:52 PM

I am a bit surprised, but I guess everything eventually wears out.

In the 1980's I worked as a field engineer that supported a lot of pdp-11's. They were very reliable for the time; tape drives and disks were the #1 maintenance items. To actually have to open up the processor and change a board was not a regular activity.

Other machines of that era, like those from Gould or Perkin/Elmer or DG gave regular practice in the art of repairing processors.

Guess I expect them to work forever. Like a Toyota.

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