>> everything breaks and is bugged In my Fortran IV class fifty years ago, and it was not unusual for the Burroughs mainframe to be down when one showed up wit

>> everything breaks and is bugged In my Fortran IV class fifty years ago, and it was not unusual for the Burroughs mainframe to be down when one showed up with punch cards or showed up to punch them. Modern cars are vastly more reliable than the ones I grew up driving. Modern tires last a lot longer. It is true that sixty years ago one could pull tubes out of the TV and test them at the hardware store's plugboard; but it is also true that new TVs without such troubleshooting options are much more reliable. I think that we got our current TV because my wife wanted to watch the 2008 presidential debates. It still works.