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With the 8" floppies, the term "floppy" really made sense 
Belive it or not: Even those stone age 8" floppies came in capacities up to a whooping 1.2 Mbytes/floppy! I don't think IBM's DSDD version was very successful (the 5.25" had already arrived), but I used a lot of 1.2 MB versions with a proprietary formatting (sectors where 180 degrees, 2 kByte to the sector) and proprietary file system, for a popular 1970-80s "(super)minicomputer" series. The (super)minis did get 5.25" drives, later, but before the 3.5" floppies (which we jokingly called "stiffies", but that could be misread by mislead people...) arrived, the (super)mini era was over.
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only count the date you purchased the initial unit.
My actual PC is 6 years old, but initial unit is way older.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Fair enough, no sandwich for you then. 
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I think I have had only two full tower size cases over the years, each for a series of different mainboards. I don't think that metal skin is essential to the evaluation of my development computer.
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If you replace all of the parts one at a time, is it really still the same machine?
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Perhaps as old as its chassis?
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I bought it just earlier this year, but it's second hand as I got it from my old employer.
It was new when I got it when I started working there two years ago.
So I voted 1-3 years.
I could buy it for a very reasonable price 
250 GB SSD + 500 GB HDD, 32 GB memory, Intel i7 @ 2.70 GHz... No reason to get a new one just yet 
The SSD is brand new as the old one somehow didn't work after I quit my job.
Most of my other stuff, monitors, keyboard, mouse, docking station... Is about a year old.
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I'm running an old i5 powered by the souls of VB6 developers.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I know you're lying... VB6 developers don't have souls
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And just why do you think they don't?
I'll tell you why.
*slurp*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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This is a once in a lifetime, but... I'm putting my pitchfork away 
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It's the circle of life, predator and prey.
The world demands blood. I didn't make it that way. I just accept my role in the order of things.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Sander Rossel wrote: VB6 developers don't have souls
They used to have souls, until codewitch took them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is this considered as the "main development machine"?
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Unfortunately, when your brain starts to lose performance (say next to a 25-35 year old's brain), and your memory starts to leak, and the power supply starts to fizzle, you can't just go online and order a new brain.
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I never work on a computer older than 3 years (personal or work); just like I never own/lease a vehicle older than 3 years, all for the same reasons.
My personal is 2 year's old, and my work laptop is 1+ year's old.
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I couldn't do that: changing keyboards is traumatic enough (all the keys are in subtly different places, and have different travel depths so I misskey, a lot), changing KB, and mouse, and monitors, and ... that would be horrific!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
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only my machine changes, not my keyboard, mouse, or my dual 27" monitors. If I had to give up my monitors, that would be horrific for sure.
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And that's continuity past your 3 years, isn't it?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My comments were centered on the "development machine". I don't consider peripherals to be part of the development machine.
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My home development machine (I maintain several software systems for my own use and for my friends) is 4-5 years old, or is it six now? I ask: Why would I care to replace it? I always choose (at least) "upper middle class" when I make investments, to make them last longer, and this machine has got all the interfaces I need, the CPU speed I need, the RAM space I need. I add another disk now and then (or replace with a bigger one) - that comes without saying when you play around with digital video.
Fortunately, mainstream moved away from floor standing PCs many years ago, so there is very little pressure from the environment to continously upgrade to the latest bells an whistles that you don't need. (But colleagues and friends certainly laugh at my outdated (that is, 3 years old) smartphone that doesn't even have the latest Android version...)
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... I guess it's probably older than that by a strict interpretation of the "rules":Quote: Even if you've replaced all the bits many times over, only count the date you purchased the initial unit.
Back in the late 80's I bought an Amstrad 1640, and replaced it completely with a DX4 based clone in the early 90's (to play Doom2, natch) - this was called "RT", short for "Rottwielers Test...s".
Not one part of the Amstrad was used in "RT", and not one part of RT exists in my current machine.
But ... as I upgraded, a bought a new case here, a new motherboard there, new HDD's, ... the keyboard stayed the same for decades until half the letters had worn off, and the springs started to go. The mouse lingered, but were upgraded ...
So technically, despite there being nothing older than 10 years - even the mouse is younger than that, I think - this system has continuity right back to 1994 ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mine is like that, the case is probably the oldest part from about 2002.
One of the still frequently used disk drives says it's been powered on for more than 10 years ...
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I had to change the case a few years ago when the PSU died, and I realised I needed a bigger one (both in Watts and physical dimensions / cooling)
I'd suggest backing up the old drive: it's never a case of "if" a drive is going to fail, but "when", sadly.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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