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   Hi August,   
      
   On 2022-01-03 14:06:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    WvV>> But regarding "break down" I was thinking more about your   
    WvV>> old hardware not surviving another X years...   
      
    AA> Ah, yes. There's that other niggly thing.   
      
    AA> I was well into my first year of ownership of my shop (now 10   
    AA> years as of Jan 12, 2012), when the main office pc that was   
    AA> operating as a file server to the network wouldn't boot up one   
    AA> morning!  It was a Dell. I assumed it was the infamous on/off   
    AA> switch issue. Opening the case, and testing the switch contacts   
    AA> eliminated that issue. Something on the mobo was most likely   
    AA> the issue.  It was a bit of a mad scramble to steer the   
    AA> fileserver fuction to another DT pc.  I didn't have time to   
    AA> investigate further electronic causes. But I moved the HDD to   
    AA> an external USB case and continued to access the files (or at   
    AA> least copy the main ones) that way on yet another pc that was   
    AA> connected on the network.   
      
    AA> About a year later, that latter pc (a small compact/slim DT   
    AA> model) wouldn't boot up consistently either! (Arghhh! Here we   
    AA> go again.) I replaced that one with my Lenovo 3000. So far, so   
    AA> good.   
      
   As long as you have backups that are not too old, and which are tested to   
   work... ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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