[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[beer]

On Sat, October 15, 2005 8:23 am, Christopher DeMarco said:
> 1.  The stuff you get today has WAAAAAY more components than does Ye Olde
> Stuffe, hence more more tickets in the MTBF lotto.
> 
> 2.  It's possible that the huge market growth has brought with it shoddy
> goods - whereas twenty years ago a mfg of crap might have been too obvious
> to survive, perhaps today the pool is big enough to obscure (or the
> mass-market ignorant enough to not identify) poor-quality goods.
> 
> My money's riding on #1, though.

I'd say its a little from column A and a little from column B...

:)