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   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   ** On Monday 03.01.22 - 18:03, you wrote to me:   
      
    WvV> But regarding "break down" I was thinking more about your   
    WvV> old hardware not surviving another X years...   
      
   Ah, yes. There's that other niggly thing.   
      
   I was well into my first year of ownership of my shop (now 10     
   years as of Jan 12, 2012), when the main office pc that was     
   operating as a file server to the network wouldn't boot up one     
   morning!  It was a Dell. I assumed it was the infamous on/off     
   switch issue. Opening the case, and testing the switch contacts     
   eliminated that issue. Something on the mobo was most likely     
   the issue.  It was a bit of a mad scramble to steer the     
   fileserver fuction to another DT pc.  I didn't have time to     
   investigate further electronic causes. But I moved the HDD to     
   an external USB case and continued to access the files (or at     
   least copy the main ones) that way on yet another pc that was     
   connected on the network.   
      
   About a year later, that latter pc (a small compact/slim DT   
   model) wouldn't boot up consistently either! (Arghhh! Here we   
   go again.) I replaced that one with my Lenovo 3000. So far, so     
   good.   
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     ../|ug   
      
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