When I read "Dell Optiplex GX270," my memory tickled and I looked it up. Just as I thought. I used to be a field tech for a service company around 2007 and 20

When I read "Dell Optiplex GX270," my memory tickled and I looked it up. Just as I thought. I used to be a field tech for a service company around 2007 and 2008. I remember having to swap the motherboard for a bunch of those computers in grocery stores. Same problem every time; popped capacitors. Grocery stores run by Nash Finch, on the other hand (Sunmart, if you're in Nebraska) had old NCR POS terminals from the early 1980s. These were some of the very first computerized point of sale terminals in non-upscale retail stores. Those things were still going strong more than thirty years later. The printers on those things were mechanical failures waiting to happen, but the POS terminal, itself was crazy reliable. The Midwest gets some impressive electrical storms. Occasionally, one of these storms would fry a peripheral card in one of the terminals. When that would happen, I would have to go to the store after closing hours, call up the tech who specialized in these terminals, and he would walk me through ripping out the proper card and rebooting that terminal from the master POS terminal. Yup, the thing would still boot up; even after a peripheral card had been burned. NCR had long since gotten sick of that model and I don't blame them. Those printers were dodgy. Nash Finch were such cheapskates.