Still going strong after all these years!

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It always makes me smile how these old Computers are still going strong after all these years!

Commodore must never have imagined we'd still be using these 20+ year old computers today let alone doing new and original things with them like Jens new ACA's and FF/SD's :)

I'm just messing with my A4000T this morning and although I had to reaset a couple of Zorro cards to get it to boot lol she's running along fine now :lol:

Just downloading some files off my dropbox and notice I'm getting about 120k/sec downloading, that's about as fast as my 1mb NTL connection I only 5 or so years ago :o

It shows with a decent broadband connection these machines can be pretty quick indeed, not bad for an all Zorro setup (the card here is an X-Surf)

And then playing some Quake via the Picasso IV RTG with Concierto 16bit Sound - Awsome :bowdown:

Long live Amiga!
 
I know the feeling with my ZX Spectrum +2 as it turns 30 this year.

Games are still being made as is hardware.

The only thing that's changed is that we can all communicate through the web and share thoughts and idea's. It makes you think if these new machines are the be all and end all as the media say then why is there still a strong base for old computers.:thumbsup:
 
I have been thinking about this lately and i'm surprised to see that my A1200 setup is still working very good and stable considering its age. Must admit that I have replaced the A1200 mobo 2 times in 15 years and one of these was my own fault but it's still going strong :). My current setup has been booting up flawlessly everytime now (*knocks wood*) and I intend to use it for many years to come.
 
Good build quality = less profit overall. That's company thinking these days sadly. But it's nice to be reminded of when things were made to last.
 
moggsie said:
Good build quality = less profit overall. That's company thinking these days sadly. But it's nice to be reminded of when things were made to last.
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Well, computers today will probably last long as well. it is just a question of people LET them live. Amiga had a finite lifespan, PCs hasn't that. People will not have the same milestones to remember as we did back then. vic 20 to c64 to amiga is distinct. core duo to core 2 duo to i-core is just a transition, not a milestone. For me there is a pre-pentium and post-pentium distinctation. probably because pre-pentium you had a wide choice (atari, amiga, arcimedes etc), post pentium it was just pcs and macs left.
 
so true,it still surprises me how these machines hold up even today.

my pc which ive had for over five years had to be repaired for varius reasons.

amigas just seem to run and run forever no matter what i throw at it lol.i just love em.

amiga ftw.
 
moijk said:
moggsie said:
Good build quality = less profit overall. That's company thinking these days sadly. But it's nice to be reminded of when things were made to last.
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Well, computers today will probably last long as well. it is just a question of people LET them live. Amiga had a finite lifespan, PCs hasn't that. People will not have the same milestones to remember as we did back then. vic 20 to c64 to amiga is distinct. core duo to core 2 duo to i-core is just a transition, not a milestone. For me there is a pre-pentium and post-pentium distinctation. probably because pre-pentium you had a wide choice (atari, amiga, arcimedes etc), post pentium it was just pcs and macs left.
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I remember reading once that computers (be it PC's, games consoles, home computers etc) should have a lifespan of at least 15 years because of the resources required to produce them in the first place. Basiclly it was saying the way we produce electronic equipment en masse at the moment is unsustainable.

Hmmmmm, I would really like to see the current generation of video games lasting untill 2020 at least!
 
I'm interested that you say your are using Dropbox with an Amiga. My question is how? To the best of my knowledge there is no ftp access to Dropbox and of course no Amiga client.
 
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I'm interested that you say your are using Dropbox with an Amiga. My question is how? To the best of my knowledge there is no ftp access to Dropbox and of course no Amiga client.
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I put the files in my 'public' folder and typed in the links on IBrowse :cool:
 
They are like rocks, specially the OCS/ECS era ones, I remember an story of an old A2000 that ran a BBS on a 24/7 basis for years, the its owner decommisioned it and put it in a dusty basement for some more years and it even suffered a flood there, then it was given to a friend.

Guess what happened when my friend plugged it and switched on the power button (after a mere visual inspection of the internals for discarding major damage)...

Yes you guessed right, it ran and booted like new :o

Now things are quite different, for instance some months ago I bought a (well, low end and cheap but new) Dell inspiron i3 laptop, It ran fine for three weeks and one day with no apparent reason It decided to not start up, cause: fried motherboard.

Then imagine, sending it to the repair center to get mobo replaced and all that, and meanwhile I feeling truly upset with this.:mad:

I´m getting a bit tired of the cheap made everything plague of nowadays :(
 
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Does the "lead free" design these days have anything to do with the reliability maybe? Just a thought.
 
sblurter said:
Does the "lead free" design these days have anything to do with the reliability maybe? Just a thought.
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I think that the cause is more related to production costs cutting than anything else, also In my humble opinion I think that us as customers are in part responsible of this.

For example, commonly in the 80s days our fathers don't mind in spend many months salary income in an expensive decent TV set (say Grundig super color series, Sony trinitrons an such), normally it was a big economic effort for any working class guy, but you were sure that you paid for quality and reliability.

And nowadays most people don't care in buying any el cheapo chinese/korean LCD TV by just saying "hey, it has full HD, HD DVB-T tuner and a myriad of acronyms printed on a sticker than that expensive Sony or whatever TV doesn't even have, what a deal!" .

For me is the customer's mind of buying cheap, then if it fails, throw it away and buy cheap again that is harming quality, even much manufacturers linked with quality in the past have to deliberately lower their standards to mantain competitivity, not to speak of the irresponsible way of wasting an huge amount of resources, making this way of doing things hardly sustainable in the future.
 
Nice post - I totally agree. I find it staggering that my A600 build is being created purely with brand new parts in the year 2012 - how on earth is that possible?! I was a school boy on a paper round when I first lusted over owning an A600 - I'm 33 now.....

I love the Amiga scene, it is fresh (ironic ah?), creative, original and defiant even after all these years. Human Traffic by Ghost Town Loonies sums it up perfectly for me - the future, the past rolled into one. For those that haven't seen it:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd7DARSh2bU

These machines, dare I say it, have soul, and character (& quirks) that has seen them survive well beyond what Commodore originally intended - actually the Amiga scene was still very large and popular in 1997, 5 years? after Commodore when bankrupt - how on earth was that possible without people who were/are passionate about the scene and the computer.

Long live the Amiga scene in all its various guises :bowdown::bowdown:
 
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