Reply #229: correlations of aging technology and technicians

[divvy]

xxxx, don’t underestimate your contributions. I say this for several reasons. First the public is illiterate and reasonable discussion serves perspective and education. Also, when it comes to all things technical, I find that servicing aging equipment becomes more of a problem as the technicians familiar with those systems retire. I am one of the few in our plant who is familiar with wire-wrapped controls that used dental floss for ty-wrapping. I could also hook up a Winchester drive and perform the necessary “dos wizardry”. The new stuff, well not so much. This is to say there is a useful correlation between the vintage of the equipment and the vintage of the technicians. Please don’t loose sight of that.

This may lead to the next unaddressed point in discussion:

The correlation between aging technology, aging technicians, and obsolete parts. Maybe planned plant obsolencence by law?