8th June 2005, 9:22 PM
I'll go in reverse.
So why do I want the GB and GBC games? What I mean is, they don't sell the old GB or GBC games any more. The main reason the collection of old games is cool, to me anyway, is that they are once again available, to me, to get. Beats blindly hoping the game you are looking for shows up at some used game store...
Yes, the less moving parts, the better the design. My point was that hard disks will last LONGER than the disk drive. What THAT means is the system is rendered unusable in the same amount of time anyway, so who cares how long the longest lasting part lasts? For all practical purposes, the most important part life span is the shortest critical one.
So why do I want the GB and GBC games? What I mean is, they don't sell the old GB or GBC games any more. The main reason the collection of old games is cool, to me anyway, is that they are once again available, to me, to get. Beats blindly hoping the game you are looking for shows up at some used game store...
Yes, the less moving parts, the better the design. My point was that hard disks will last LONGER than the disk drive. What THAT means is the system is rendered unusable in the same amount of time anyway, so who cares how long the longest lasting part lasts? For all practical purposes, the most important part life span is the shortest critical one.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)