Survey: Do You Want An Heirloom Computer?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 04. 8.09
We had a long debate 'round the water cooler about Mark's post on heirloom computing, about whether computers could be built to last a hundred years and eliminate the waste of constantly upgrading. Heirloom computers like the Suissa shown above already exist; you just upgrade the guts. But Mark asks: "if we're so collectively technologically smart, why can't we develop a piece of (mostly) solid state equipment that lasts a century or more?" We ask, why should we?
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