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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Novels About Rediscovering Ancient Tech
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 08:00:10 -0700
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On Mon, 13 May 2024 12:12:14 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Thu, 9 May 2024 16:01:15 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I am currently being cooled by a fan which is several years older than=20
>>Voyager.  Admittedly not such advanced technology, but a mere household=
=20
>>item. And it is one of a pair.  Which leads me to wonder, just  how =
long=20
>>could simple machines work, if we actually built them with longevity in=
=20
>>mind?
>>
>>Fans bought since then have rarely lasted more than five years.  I do=20
>>have a Honeywell which lasted eight and still could be fixed if I could=
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>>only open it up - or so I think.
>
>Good question though I have a 3-position pole lamp in my living room
>that was used in my parents' home some 50+ years ago that hasn't
>required any work other than changing light bulbs (we're now using the
>newer mini-fluorescents rather than the old incandescents but nothing
>else is changed). I have a 30+ year old pair of lamps in my bed room.
>
>No doubt others here have older gear than that.

I have a two-pole lamp that may be older than I am -- but only the
actual /lamp/ is original. The shade vanished on a move; the cord was
replaced because it wasn't long enough; the inline switch was replaced
a while back because the one I bought in the 80s died; and the sockets
that the bulbs screw into were replaced when I managed to break the
older ones.=20

So, like the car in /The World's End/, it is the same in one sense,
and yet not in another since almost everything has been replaced.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"