This is called planning for disaster. Do you know how many companies come to a grinding halt when their electronic credit card processing system has problems be

This is called planning for disaster. Do you know how many companies come to a grinding halt when their electronic credit card processing system has problems because they all threw out their carbon slips and imprinters? I'm always pleasantly surprised when I go into a store whose electronic systems are down and they keep on ticking because they planned for this... and how long ago was the last time you saw this? I'd forgotten carbon slips even existed until I saw them used in a store a couple of months ago. So call it dismissive, call it what you want. I call it having a backup plan. Also: > I can imagine, 20 or 30 years ago, someone saying something similar about a car: "a bug in your ECU is keeping your car from starting? That's your problem for having bought a car running off of a computer!" Forget 20-30 years ago, farmers are having this exact problem with John Deere right now, and they're concluding exactly this - it's their problem for having brought a tractor that relies on a computer, so they're buying up antique pre-ECU tractors so they're not beholden to these major corporations that "give them a license to use a tractor" for as long as the software works... and they have zero right to fix it if it breaks. So next time you consider throwing out an old technology, just because there's something newer and better, perhaps consider putting it in a box for a time when it might be put to good use - a time such as this, and don't forget to put the installation instructions with it, because guaranteed you can never find them when you need them :P